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2: Terminology Standards and Tools
Module 2 Knowledge Check
Exercises
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Which describe terminology standards?
Answer
d) All of the above.
Standardized terminologies may have some or all the following characteristics: (Select all that apply)
Answer
All characteristics are correct (a-e).
Select the medical terminology to the correct description:
a) Used for describing clinical concepts across various healthcare domains.
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b) Used for classifying and coding diseases, injuries, and causes of death.
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c) Facilitates the exchange and aggregation of laboratory test results and other clinical observations.
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d) Codes used for reporting medical procedures and services performed by healthcare professionals.
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e) Provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software.
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Answer
a) SNOMED CT - Used for describing clinical concepts across various healthcare domains. b) ICD - Used for classifying and coding diseases, injuries, and causes of death.
c) LOINC - Facilitates the exchange and aggregation of laboratory test results and other clinical observations. d) CPT - Codes used for reporting medical procedures and services performed by healthcare professionals. e) RxNORM - Provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software.
Which tool is a set of files and software that brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems?