The Professional Record Standards Body has published guidance on COVID-19 SNOMED CT codes.
In response to the current pandemic, the body has worked with NHS Digital to publish clinical information for COVID-19-related care and treatment and how it should be coded.
The UK SNOMED CT codes for COVID-19 have been released here by NHS Digital.
The COVID-19 SNOMED CT codes comprise of the following groups:
- Risk category
- Isolating/shielding advice
- Encounter and advice
- Exposure
- Signs and symptoms
- Swabbing
- Tests and test results
- Clinical and test result interpretations/disease labels
- Severity assessment
- Complications
- Vaccination
The codes and data will also support central data collections to help manage the pandemic and aid research and planning.
The full list of codes is available on the NHS Digital website and here.
PRSB is holding a webinar on 9 April to discuss this in more depth, for details email info@theprsb.org.
