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Snomed Descriptions

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Description

The Full List tab (and export) only list one Preferred Description for the code, which isn't always the one which is used most often in the UK.

Example: 'Common Migraine' is what we grew up with, but Snomed appropriately calls it Migraine without aura:
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If I search against Common Migraine, my final list will be the 'Snomed preferred description' list, but incomplete. This is a particular problem where the person creating the list does not know the synonyms - for me, it is the eponymous diseases which have |Miggins Disease| as well as |Post-prandial-prostatism-syndrome|. If I don't know them all, I can't validate a list by looking at it.

There is a use-case for creating a verbatim list of ALL SYNONYMS that I'm working with - a third party tool which uses the text of snomed descriptions to infer the underlying concept, as it processes unstructured data.

Request: can we have an extra tab which converts a 'Full List' into a 'Full List including all SNOMED Descriptions'?

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Research direction

Start from the Full List tab and its export path, then trace how the current SNOMED preferred description is selected. The change is done when an additional full-list view and export include all SNOMED descriptions, including synonyms, for each code.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
full-stack
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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