Context values for actions - concept definitions

What does "Meaning in your country" mean? What goes in that column? I guess we cannot, in any case, choose to use the concept in a different meaning?

Dear Jostein,

Thank you for your comment.

To use Olivier's example of 'what does blue mean', as there are many different shades of 'blue'. We can state that any shade of blue can be specified by measuring its specific wavelength. Therefore, if 'Blue' was one of the values in our list, we want you to specify its definition in your country as a wavelength. We recognise that different countries may use different shades of blue and therefore there may be a range of wavelengths recorded.

In an ideal situation the majority of countries would have recorded the same wavelength for 'blue' and so we will have reached consensus. If that is not the case it will be up to the group to either come to a consensus, in which case we will have adopted a wavelength definition which will become an 'international standard' or there will be an agreement that consensus cannot be reached and 'Blue' will be deemed to be inappropriate to use within SNOMED CT core as it does not have an internationally agreed definition.

The spreadsheet is acting as a placeholder for everyone to provide a definition of what it would mean within their own country for each of the listed qualifier values for "Context for actions" and then we can see what level of consensus there may be between countries and use this as a base from which to debate whether consensus can be reached or not.

Hope that helps.

Regards

Paul

Thanks! One more question: When it says Allowed in column C, that means that the value is allowed in the core module?