Vocabulary for EhrBatteryCode

2.16.840.1.113883.2.1.3.2.4.15

Version:	2.0
Status:	active
Date:	2003-11-28

Where the EhrCompoundLevel attribute value is 'battery', the vocabulary is used to specify the name of a set of observations from an identifiable investigation (e.g. Blood Pressure, Full Blood Count, Electrolytes and Urea).

A code representing the name of a battery of observations (e.g. the name of a specific kind of investigation, e.g. a blood pressure observation or full blood count), taken from one of the following code systems:

SNOMED CT UK

A code from Snomed-CT (UK) may be accompanied by additional qualifying codes from the same coding system.

Clinical Terms (Read Codes) v3

A code from Clinical Terms (Read codes) Version 3 may be accompanied by additional qualifying codes from the same coding system.

Read Codes Version 2

Read Codes Four Byte Set

Egton Codes

EMIS Drug Codes

An optional code from another of the coding systems described above, representing a mapping to the first code, may be used as a "translation".

A translation code is not required if the data was originally recorded in Snomed-CT UK; otherwise the "translation" code should have an identical or more general meaning than the original code.