opensafely-core / opensafely-core/opencodelists
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:

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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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- full-stack
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100