Hello Ian, The list I sent is flattened, here is a view of Postpartum depression and its 4 immediate parents. Snomed-CT supports multiple inheritance.
http://download.medical-objects.com.au/docs/postpartum.jpg I sent it earlier, but attachments must be banned. Andrew Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 6:54:05 AM, you wrote: IC> At 9:05 pm +1100 6/12/05, Horst Herb wrote: >>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 IC> Usual practice is that codes should have no inherent meaning - their IC> primary function is uniqueness. IC> The structured hierarchy provides the relationships between concepts. IC> SNOMED data files provide machinery to describe its structure IC> ("directed acyclical graph") in three data tables - concepts, IC> descriptions, relationships. I presume one has to discover the root IC> note concept to start with, or some documentation I don't yet have. IC> One needs a browser of some form - the one supplied runs on Windows. IC> I have also been provided with an alternative one that works with IC> Access. There are no open source SNOMED browsers that query SQL to my IC> knowledge (and I asked Peter Scott). IC> (I have been toying with writing one as a learning exercise but IC> haven't had time/inclination lately.) IC> Ian. >>_______________________________________________ >>Gpcg_talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- Best regards, Andrew mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew McIntyre Buderim Gastroenterology Centre www.buderimgastro.com.au PH: 07 54455055 FAX: 54455047 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
