Introduction

The Canadian Vaccine Catalogue (CVC) created Patients-Friendly and Clinicians Picklists for their use. With the transition to the National Vaccine Catalog, (NVC), stakeholders (provincial jurisdictions) expressed their interest to create SNOMED CT standardized Patients-Friendly and Clinician Picklists that would meet the current requirements of the Public Health Surveillance Community (PHSC). A Picklists working group (PWG) was created with a representative of each jurisdiction that expressed their interest, to help determine the guidelines. All the following guidelines are based on each jurisdiction requirements and their knowledge on the users (patients and clinicians).

Clinicians Picklists

Clinician Picklists are terms that are used by the clinicians. These terms are integrated and published into the CA edition as Preferred synonyms (PS). The scope of the picklist terms includes the VaccineHistoricalName, the PassiveHistoricalImmunizingAgentCode, the PassiveAdministeredImmunizingAgentCode, and the VaccineAdministeredName subsets.

Generic concepts

The generic terms part of the Clinicians picklists are concepts included in Immunization VaccineHistoricalNameCode and PassiveHistoricalImmunizingAgentCode subsets.

Concepts without qualifier

The format for the Preferred Synonym (PS) is as follows: 

Concepts with qualifier

The format for the Preferred Synonym (PS) is as follows: 

*qualifier = pediatric, adult, injectable, inactivated, live, monoclonal, attenuated

Tradename concepts

The tradename terms are concepts included in VaccineAdministeredName and the PassiveAdministeredImmunizingAgentCode subsets.

Concepts pattern

The format for the Preferred Synonym (PS) is as follows: 

Concepts with same tradename different MAH.

In case of two or more concepts have the same tradename, and no other distinction is made in the product name, then it was decided to differentiate them to add the MAH abbreviation in parenthesis, at the end of the term.

Concept with qualifier

*strengh is represented with the abbreviation version and not the full term

Example: 10 mcg/0.3 mL instead of 10 micrograms/0.3 milliliter 

Règles éditoriales pour les descriptions en français

Des règles éditoriales générales ont été décidées avec le groupe de travail:

Le patron général en français pour les termes génériques pour les cliniciens est :

Concepts avec un “qualifier”

Le patron général à suivre pour les concepts génériques ayant un « qualifier » (qualificateur) est :

*qualifier = pédiatrique, adulte, injectable, inactivé, vivant, monoclonal, valence

Concepts ayant un « qualifier » - exceptions