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| ===== Definitions and Terms ===== | ===== Definitions and Terms ===== | ||
| - | For purposes of the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM), the following terms are used: | + | Thank you for visiting the wiki! This page has moved to https://github.com/OHDSI/Vocabulary-v5.0/wiki/Glossary. |
| - | ^Term^Description^ | + | |
| - | |Standardized Vocabularies|Contains a system of Vocabularies, Classifications, Domains and Concepts all consolidated into a common format and stored in a set of CDM tables.| | + | |
| - | |Vocabulary|A set of codes or concepts, including if available relationships amongst them, including if available a hierarchy, ontology or taxonomy of the concepts. Many vocabularies are adopted from national or international organizations, such as ICD-9-CM, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, Read.| | + | |
| - | |Terminology|Similar to vocabulary and often used synonymously, but not used in this document.| | + | |
| - | |Coding scheme|Similar to vocabulary and often used synonymously, but not used in this document.| | + | |
| - | |Classification|A hierarchical system of concepts and concept relationships that defines semantically useful classes, like chemical structures for drugs.| | + | |
| - | |Domain|A clinical semantic category, like Drug, Condition, Procedure defined for all Concepts in the Standardized Vocabularies.| | + | |
| - | |Concept|Basic unit of information defined in each Vocabulary.| | + | |
| - | |Concept Class|An attribute of a concept characterizing it's classification within a Vocabulary. The difference to the Classification is that a Concept Class is a single attribute without any hierarchical structure.| | + | |
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