The current pages form the SNOMED CT Content Development Canadian Editorial Guidelines for Microbiology. They have been reviewed against the latest version of the SNOMED International Editorial Guidelines to ensure alignment between the guidelines.
These pages describe Infoway’s approach to applying the Editorial Guidelines from SNOMED International to create SNOMED CT concepts for Microbiology. This includes:
Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) publishes English Generic Editorial Guidelines. These guidelines should be consulted, along with the guidelines in the following pages prior to creating any new content for submission to Infoway.
Implementers should be familiar with the SNOMED International Guidelines prior to creating submissions for new content.
References are required when submitting requests for new concepts.
Here is the list of a few resources that SNOMED International considers when reviewing the changes applicable to the Organism hierarchy:
Bacteria:
Fungus:
Viruses:
Parasites:
General
In order to provide input to SNOMED International regarding the development of Microbiology Editorial Guidelines, submitters must first register with SNOMED International Confluence. (https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/ILS/Confluence+User+Accounts)
Once the Confluence account has been created, submitters must then request to join a specific project they want to follow or provide input to. The Micro Editorial Guidelines project ended on Dec 15, 2014.
Once a submitter has joined a project, they should attend the WG meetings and provide their input.