Situation with Explicit Context Naming Conventions

Situation with Explicit Context Naming Conventions

For information on precoordinated naming patterns that have been reviewed or are currently in review, see Pre-coordination Naming Patterns project Unreviewed patterns for the Situation with explicit context hierarchy can be found here.  New content should conform with the naming patterns; however, legacy content may not.

For example, 

Acceptable naming pattern

FSN: <procedure> declined (situation)

PT:  <procedure> declined 

SYN: <procedure> refused  (This is optional.)

  • 736013005 |Body weight measurement declined (situation)|

 

The following naming patterns are no longer accepted for addition to the International Edition:

Procedure offered

Procedure not offered

Procedure done

Procedure not done

Note that 385658003 |Done (qualifier value)| (a descendent of 410523001 |Post-starting action status (qualifier value)|) remains in use as the target value of the 408730004 |Procedure context (attribute)| in History of <procedure> concepts.

Not every naming pattern is found in the Pre-coordination Naming Pattern project.  Some naming patterns can be prescribed in Templates.  Others can come from trackers or fast track documents, such as the examples below. 

FSN:  No known allergy (situation)

PT: No known allergy

SYN: NKA - No known allergy

FSN: No known insect allergy (situation)

PT: No known insect allergy

History of finding or disorder occurring in past pregnancy

For concepts relating to a history of a finding, disorder, procedure, or event occurring in a past pregnancy of the subject of the record, use an FSN and PT of |Past pregnancy history of X (situation)|.   These concepts are subtypes of 271903000 |History of pregnancy (situation)|. 

  • For example, 

    • 161804005 |Past pregnancy history of antepartum hemorrhage (situation)| is a subtype of 271903000 |History of pregnancy (situation)|

For content relating to family history, this must be specified in both the FSN and preferred term to distinguish between past pregnancy of the subject of the medical record. 

  • For example,

    • |Past pregnancy history of neonatal death (situation)| versus |Family history of neonatal death (situation)|

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