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What's in a Class? Lessons Learnt from the ICD – SNOMED CT Harmonisation
Stefan Schulz, Jean-M. Rodrigues, Alan Rector, Kent Spackman, James Campbell, Bedirhan Üstün, Christopher G. Chute, Harold Solbrig, Vincenzo Della Mea, Jane Millar, Kristina Brand Persson
1038 - 1042
10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-1038
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 205: e-Health – For Continuity of Care
Abstract

The upcoming ICD-11 will be harmonized with SNOMED CT via a common ontological layer (CO). We provide evidence for our hypothesis that this cannot be appropriately done by simple ontology alignment, due to diverging ontological commitment between the two terminology systems. Whereas the common ontology describes clinical situations, ICD-11 linearization codes are best to be interpreted as diagnostic statements. For the binding between ICD codes and classes from the ontological layer, a query-based approach is favoured.

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