Introduction
The Generic Canadian Editorial Guidelines apply to requests for new concepts and descriptions, and requests for modification for SNOMED CT. Where Canadian requirements are the same as SNOMED International, the baseline reference is SNOMED International SNOMED CT Editorial Guide. Where more specificity is required, it has been added into this document or included in the domain-specific guides. A French Editorial Guideline titled Guide des règles éditoriales et terminologiques - Développement de contenu SNOMED CT en français is also available to French-speaking stakeholders.
The Canadian Editorial Guidelines outline editorial policies for the SNOMED CT CA Edition. These guidelines are primarily intended to support professionals Guidelines outline editorial policies regarding the purpose, scope, boundaries, requirements, Concept Model, hierarchies, terming, and others for SNOMED CT. These are primarily intended to guide those who are responsible for editing SNOMED CT content, and for those creating or maintaining extensions in Canada. They also provide also provide stakeholders with editorial criteria for making successful request for change (RFC) submissions for content additions or changes in either the Canadian or the International Edition of SNOMED CT.
These documents provide the latest decisions for the The documents in this guide reflect the most current editorial decisions supporting different use cases encountered to date , and serve as the baseline to the other domain-specific guidelines. It should be noted that guidelines These guidelines are working documents which continue which continue to evolve over time as medicine and along with the terminology as medicine and health sciences evolve, and as new use cases use cases arise and are accommodated within the terminology. Stakeholders are encouraged to consult these pages regularly as Infoway will update them as required and will republish them periodically.
Infoway has based these Generic Canadian Editorial Guidelines on the SNOMED International SNOMED CT Editorial Guide. A French Editorial Guideline titled Guide des règles éditoriales et terminologiques - Développement de contenu SNOMED CT en français is also available to French speaking stakeholders. These guidelines cover the common and frequent set of rules that apply to most terminology content, and must be followed when submitting RFCs to Infoway through the Infoway Request Management System (InfoRMS).
because they are updated and published periodically by the National Standards Release Center (NSRC).
When developing When creating new content, it is important to follow rules to adhere to the current editorial guidelines to assure consistency and quality. Infoway The NSRC has developed several domain-specific guidelines that augment the SNOMED International rules, avoid ambiguity and reflect Canadian reflect Canadian requirements. These domain-specific guides include:
General Considerations
These guidelines cover the most common and frequently used rules that apply to terminology content and must be followed when submitting RFCs to the NSRC through the Infoway Request Management System (InfoRMS). However, it is recommended that the Generic Canadian Editorial Canadian Editorial Guidelines be reviewed first for the following reasons:
- This document explains what the concepts include and what the intent of use is of the different descriptions namely the Fully Specified Name a (FSN) and the Preferred Synonym (PS)
- This document includes a QA Checklist which provides a QA Checklist which provides requestors with a summary of the most important criteria to validate prior to submitting your RFC to Infowayto the NSRC.
Reference to one or more of the above domain-specific guides should then be undertaken .
General Considerations
The Generic following review of the general Canadian Editorial Guidelines apply to requests for new concepts and descriptions, and requests for modification for SNOMED CT. Where Canadian requirements are the same as SNOMED International, the baseline reference is SNOMED International SNOMED CT Editorial Guide. Where more specificity is required, it has been added into this document or included in the domain-specific guideand QA Checklist.