A Clinical Situation is a qualified PATIENT DIAGNOSIS, Clinical Investigation or Patient Procedure.
A Clinical Situation represents a concept in which the clinical context is specified as part of the definition of the concept itself.
These include presence or absence of a condition, whether a Clinical Finding is current, in the past or relates to someone other than the subject of the record.
For example:
- History of drug dependency
- Family history: Myocardial infarction
- Medication review done by Pharmacist.
For further information on Clinical Situations, see the: SNOMED CT Fact Sheet: Structure of SNOMED CT.
This supporting information is also known by these names:
| Context | Alias |
|---|---|
| shortname | Situation |
| plural | Clinical Situations |
| indexname | Situations |