HL7 Terminology
2.0.0 - Publication

This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v2.0.0: Release) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 5.2.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

: MEDCIN - XML Representation

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<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="medcin"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medcin defines many codes, but they are not represented here</p></div>
  </text>
  <url value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medcin"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.26"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="2.0.0"/>
  <name value="Medcin"/>
  <title value="MEDCIN"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2019-03-20T00:00:00-04:00"/>
  <publisher value="TBD - External Body"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="David Lareau"/>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="MEDCIN contains more than 175,000 clinical data elements arranged in a hierarchy, with each item having weighted links to relevant diagnoses. The clinical data elements are organized into six basic termtypes designed to accommodate information relevant to a clinical encounter. The basic termtypes in MEDCIN&#39;s terminological hierarchy are as follows:

Symptoms History Physical Examination Tests Diagnoses Therapy

Within this basic structure, MEDCIN terms are further organized in a ten level terminological hierarchy, supplemented by an optional, multi-hierarchical diagnostic index. For example, the symptom of &quot;difficulty breathing&quot; is placed in the terminological hierarchy as a subsidiary (or &quot;child&quot;) finding of &quot;pulmonary symptoms,&quot; although the presence (or absence) of difficulty breathing can related to conditions as diverse as myocardial infarction, bronchitis, pharyngeal foreign bodies, asthma, pulmonary embolism, etc. MEDCIN&#39;s diagnostic index provides more than 800 such links for difficulty breathing."/>
  <content value="not-present"/>
</CodeSystem>