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Table 3 Standardised vocabulary used in clinical data exchange.

From: Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) for preventive management of COPD patients

HL7 vMR item

Vocabulary

Example (Code)

Observation

SNOMED-CT [56]

forced vital capacity (50834005)

Procedure

SNOMED-CT

spirometry test (127783003)

Problem (Disease)

ICD-10 [57]

COPD (J44)

Ethnicity

Ethnicity - CDC [58]

white (2106-3)

Language

ISO 639 language code [59]

English (en)

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Journal of Translational Medicine

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