Introduction
The current pages form the English Generic Canadian Editorial Guidelines , which apply as a baseline to the other Domain specific Guidelines. They have been reviewed against the latest version of the SNOMED International Editorial Guidelines to ensure alignment between the guidelines. 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 The Editorial Guidelines describe editorial policies regarding the purpose, scope, boundaries, requirements, concept model, hierarchies, terming, and other policies related to the content in SNOMED CT®. These are primarily intended to guide those who are responsible for editing SNOMED CT content, and those for those creating or maintaining extensions in Canada. They also provide also provide stakeholders with compliance with editorial criteria for making a successful request for change (RFC) submission to add new content to submissions for content additions or changes in either the Canadian Edition 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 . It should be noted that guidelines and serve as the baseline to the other domain-specific 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 arise and are accommodated. Stakeholders are encouraged to consult these pages regularly since Infoway will update them as required and will republish.
Canada health Infoway (Infoway) has developed these Editorial Guidelines as the English Generic Editorial Guidelines. They are based on the SNOMED International SNOMED CT Editorial Guide. A French Editorial Guideline called: 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 that must be followed when submitting a RFC 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 guides guidelines that augment the SNOMED International rules, avoid ambiguity and reflect the Canadian requirements. These aredomain-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 It is recommended that the Generic Canadian English 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 checklist that helps the requestor validate specific key points before submitting a RFC to Infoway
Then, refer to one or more of the above domain specific guides.
A QA Checklist- a QA Checklist which provides requestors with a summary of the most important criteria to validate prior to submitting your
- RFC
- to
- the NSRC.
General Considerations
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 to the Domain specific GuidelinesReference to one or more of the above domain-specific guides should be undertaken following review of the general Canadian Editorial Guidelines and QA Checklist.