hl7-fhirsnomed-ct

"patient recommended to drink water" - how to encode in SNOMED/FHIR


How would the procedure: "patient recommended to drink more water" be encoded as a SNOMED expression (or a FHIR procedure?)

Are there public guidelines for encoding records? SNOMED's docs seem to be a little sparse on examples.


Solution

  • I would have expected a child concept of 229807004 |Recommendation to change food and drink intake (procedure)| for this.

    Best solution is to request the concept from your SNOMED National Release Centre.

    Failing that, or in the meantime, you could use this concept as-is, with text (eg in a CodeableConcept) indicating the additional detail ("drink more water").