Documentation - Nutrition Care Process Terminology Clinical Project Group
Comments
A draft document describing the background and modeling solution has been added to this page (Revision of nutrition content in SNOMED CT). I would appreciate a review of the document by the project group and any comments on the approach.
A document w. input from multiple contributors is now available here .
On the topic of “inadequate intake of nutrient X”:
If an inadequate intake finding is due to inadequate intake and/or inadequate absorption and/or metabolism, does this necessitate separation these as term concepts when a disorder is not evident?
I would hesitate to use the word 'assimilation' because based on interpreting the OED (Oxford dictionary) definition, this means absorption and does not include metabolism.
Also, I have added under documentation a proposed hierarchy.
Input/request on the document you posted earlier:
It is difficult to understand the implications of the suggested reorganization based on the description provided here, specifically with regards to item 5 in the initial design section. Is it possible to look at the change in a development version of SNOMED? This would help us understand and provide feedback and consent for the proposed changes.
More simply put, would you be able to walk us through the process in a development environment (in the next mtg to discuss) so we are understand what is going on?
It is not clear what is happening when we study the document.
I think it would be appropriate for the project group to define what is meant by "Inadequate intake". I had been working on the assumption that it meant an insufficiency of introduction of the nutrient into the body, and did not imply anything about absorption or ability to metabolize.
As for the before and after view:
Before: http://browser.ihtsdotools.org/
After: https://dailybuild.ihtsdotools.org/
For example, the top level hierarchy under "Nutritional finding"
Before:
After:
This is the excel sheet that contains all US terms to promote to SNOMED International