terminology expression cannot accept SNOMED expressions or READ-codes with DOT's

Description

The problem is that the code part of the terminology binding:
V_QUALIFIED_TERM_CODE_REF

consists of two parts, the part for the code is of type NAMECHAR which does not accept the characters needed to construct a SNOMED expression.

SNOMED expressions can serve in situations where no concept is available. In this way it is possible to construct any clinical term in SNOMED.

Also I found out that RAED2 codes containing dots are not accepted, like this:
["READ2"] = <
items = <
["at0004"] = <[READ2::9x2..]>
["at0005"] = <[READ2::9NgG.]>
["at0022"] = <[READ2::9NgG0]>
["at0027"] = <[READ2::9NgK.]>
>
>

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Bert Verhees

April 25, 2017, 10:03 AM

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An example:

When we have a DvCodedText and we want to express a List Of Values with term-bindings, then we need SNOMED post-coordination in term-bindings.

Example:

Excision of lymph node: Procedure context (attribute)
58347006:408730004=410534003 <-- Not indicated
58347006:408730004=262008008 <-- Not performed
58347006:408730004=385671000 <-- Unsuccessful

Koray Atalag

May 2, 2017, 9:58 AM

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yeah this is pretty important - we really need to sort out a reasonable way to bind valuesets using EQL and/or FHIR terminology service.