Introduction
The Generic Canadian Editorial Guidelines describe Guidelines outline editorial policies regarding the purpose, scope, boundaries, requirements, concept model Concept Model, hierarchies, terming, and other policies related to the content in SNOMED CT®others for SNOMED CT®. These are primarily intended to guide those who are responsible for editing SNOMED CT content and those for those creating extensions. They 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 different use cases encountered to date. It should be noted that guidelines are working documents which continue to evolve over time as medicine and health sciences evolve, and as new 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.
Canada health Infoway (Infoway) has developed these Editorial Guidelines as the English Generic Editorial Guidelines. They are based has based these Generic Canadian Editorial Guidelines on the SNOMED International SNOMED CT Editorial Guide. A French Editorial Guideline called: 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 that , and must be followed when submitting an RFC RFCs to Infoway through the Infoway Request Management System (InfoRMS).
The current pages form the English Generic the Generic Canadian Editorial Guidelines, and serve as the baseline to the other Domain domain-specific guidelines. They have been reviewed against the latest version of the SNOMED International Editorial Guidelines to ensure alignment between the guidelines.
When creating new content, it is important to follow rules to assure consistency and quality. Infoway has developed several domain-specific guides guidelines that augment the SNOMED International rules, avoid ambiguity and reflect the Canadian reflect Canadian requirements. These areinclude:
- SNOMED CT Content Development Canadian Editorial Guidelines for Microbiology
- SNOMED CT Content Development Canadian Editorial Guidelines for Immunization
- SNOMED CT Content Development Canadian Editorial Guidelines for Clinical Imaging Procedure
It However, it is recommended that the Generic Canadian English 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 checklist that helps the requestor validate specific key points before submitting an RFC to Infoway
Then, refer to one or more of the above domain specific guides.
A QA Checklist provides- QA Checklist that provides requestors with a summary of the most important criteria to validate prior to submitting your RFC to Infoway
Reference to one or more of the above domain-specific guides should then be undertaken. request for change (RFC) to Infoway.
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 included in the Domain domain-specific Guidelinesguidelines.