HL7 Terminology (THO)
6.0.2 - Publication
This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v6.0.2: Release) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) v5.0.0. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medcin | Version: 2.0.1 | |||
Retired as of 2021-11-09 | Responsible: TBD - External Body | Computable Name: Medcin | ||
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.6.26 |
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’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 “difficulty breathing” is placed in the terminological hierarchy as a subsidiary (or “child”) finding of “pulmonary symptoms,” 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’s diagnostic index provides more than 800 such links for difficulty breathing.
This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:
Generated Narrative: CodeSystem medcin
This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medcin
defines codes, but no codes are represented here
History
Date | Action | Custodian | Author | Comment |
2022-07-22 | revise | TSMG | Jessica Bota | Add default value of TRUE for code systems missing caseSensitive element unless otherwise specified; UP-322 |