On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:01, Andrew McIntyre wrote:
> At the risk of spamming...This is a dump of "Depressive Disorder" and
> its children.

Quite interesting:

Postpartum depression (SNOMED-CT:***03003)
Major depressive disorder, single episode with postpartum onset 
(SNOMED-CT:***22000)
Maternity blues (SNOMED-CT:***225001)
Mild postnatal depression (SNOMED-CT:***349002)
Severe postnatal depression (SNOMED-CT:***350002)
Recurrent major depressive disorder with postpartum onset (SNOMED-CT:***36009)

In SNOMED, you would have a minimum of 6 apparently unrelated codes to code 
the concept of postnatal depression then. No hierarchical relationship? So if 
I want to search for all women who suffered from postnatal depression, would 
I have to query for code 03003 OR 22000 OR 225001 OR .... ?

If I have lets say a dozen apparently unrelated codes for individual common 
concepts, and no good hierarchical way to browse & query through concepts as 
opposed to individual codes, where does that lead me?

Horst
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