SNOMED CT Case for Investment - Final September 2021 - Flipbook - Page 53
FULL REPORT
S NOMED C T
SNOMED CT and Patient Outcomes
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All the contemporary definitions, including the World Health Organization, define patient health outcomes as “the
change in a patient’s health status as a result of a health care intervention or set of interventions”.
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Conceptually, this global definition of patient health outcomes can be described simply by the SNOMED CT concepts as
“the change in clinical findings or observations (i.e. change in a patient’s health) as a result of surgical, therapeutic and
diagnostic procedures, pharmaceutical or biologic products, and/or physical objects (i.e. types of interventions)”.
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As a result, SNOMED CT can be used to measure patient health outcomes, both for individual patients/citizens and
populations… the direct link between SNOMED CT and the measurement of patient health outcomes already exists.
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Spain Case Study: Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid, Spain1 took the ICHOM2 Breast Cancer Outcomes as a
minimum data set and expanded it to the needs of the hospital. The combined use of ISO 13606 and SNOMED CT has
allowed the standardized definition, structure and meaning of 259 clinical and PROM data elements. The hospital, in
turn uses this data for breast cancer, health outcomes analytics and decision making.
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Pedrara et al., https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pablo_Serrano-Balazote/publication/342421071_Defining_a_Standardized_Information_Model_for_MultiSource_Representation_of_Breast_Cancer_Data/links/5f044ecc458515505091be62/Defining-a-Standardized-Information-Model-for-Multi-Source-Representation-of-Breast-Cancer-Data.pdf, 2020
ICHOM is the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement. See ICHOM breast cancer outcomes at https://www.ichom.org/portfolio/breast-cancer/