Enriching a primary health care version of ICD-10 using SNOMED CT mapping.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In order to satisfy different needs, medical terminology systems must have richer structures. This study examines whether a Swedish primary health care version of the mono-hierarchical ICD-10 (KSH97-P) may obtain a richer structure using category and chapter mappings from KSH97-P to SNOMED CT and SNOMED CT's structure. Manually-built mappings from KSH97-P's categories and chapters to SNOMED CT's concepts are used as a starting point.

Results

The mappings are manually evaluated using computer-produced information and a small number of mappings are updated. A new and poly-hierarchical chapter division of KSH97-P's categories has been created using the category and chapter mappings and SNOMED CT's generic structure. In the new chapter division, most categories are in

SUBMITTER: Nystrom M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2908062 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature