We work for an accreditated SME (P.G.M.D. Consulting) involved in the EHDEN Project and we are currently mapping the records coming from anatomic pathology examinations carried out in some Italian laboratories.
These examinations are coded through 3 different fields, identifying respectively topography, morphology and procedure. These fields are coded according to SNOMED-RT (an example of a morphology code is “M-44020”, corresponding to “Pyogenic granuloma”; similar codes, but starting with the letters “T” and “P” are assigned to topography and procedure), and we can’t seem to find the correspondence between this vocabulary and SNOMED-CT in Athena.
Unfortunately, SNOMED does not release previous versions of the vocabulary, unless for scientific reasons, therefore we would like to ask you if you have a correspondence table that you can share with us. These table appears to have been released when the conversion between SNOMET-RT and SNOMED-CT occurred (see pages 224 and following of the link (https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/download/attachments/73368648/doc_RF1Guide_Current-en-US_INT_20140731.pdf)).
Oh boy. SNOMED RT? That thing died 20 years ago. I am sure there is some conversion table somewhere, but I am surprised it is still in use. Happy to ask your SNOMED friends to find out.
Dear Michael,
Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately we have subscribed to the link that you sent us, but there are no releases for the mapping table that you suggested. We searched for other releases from the same website but we couldn’t manage to find any alternative. Would you have any other suggestion for us?
Thank you very much for your help.
