CSN EN ISO 17117-1

CSN EN ISO 17117-1 This document defines universal and specialized characteristics of health terminological resources that make them fit for the purposes required of various applications. It covers only terminological resources that are primarily designed to be used for clinical concept representation or to those parts of other terminological resources designed to be used for clinical concept representation. This document helps users to assess whether a terminology has the characteristics or provides the functions that will support their specified requirements. In order to do that, this document focuses on defining characteristics and functions of terminological resources in healthcare that can be used to identify different types of terminological resources for categorization purposes.
Original English text of CSN EN Standard.
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