Hi does anyone know if there is a Veterinary equivalent to SNOMED & LOINC?
thanks Neville
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Hello Neville, both SNOMED CT and LOINC have concepts for nonhuman species. I can’t fully address SCT’s vet content but it appears to be in the form of an extension named VetSCT.
LOINC’s vet content can be found via our SearchLOINC tool. (Use your LOINC username and password to log in.) Simply search for veterinary to find appropriate concepts. Alternatively, you can search for a specific concept and then use the Filter function to narrow the results under Tags to just Veterinary. (See screenshot below.)
Veterinary clinical concepts have a LOINC Class of CLIN:VET. Lab vet terms appear in other classes but usually have veterinary in the name or synonyms, e.g. 88869-3. Again, you can use the Tags filter in SearchLOINC to identify them.
Hi Neville,
SNOVET (the veterinary extension of SNOMED CT) is browsable on CSIRO’s internet facing terminology server (ontoserver) and hence also available for mapping in SNOMED International’s SNAP2SNOMED web application. In the ontoserver shrimp browser, which is part of ontoserver, select the Veterinary extension under the version box and type the term into the search box.
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