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VetSCT©		 Small Animal Problem and Diagnosis Terms Consolidated

April 1, 2023
VTSL would like to announce the consolidation of the AAHA Problem and Diagnosis Terms (AAHA PDT) and the Small Animal Specialty Problem and Diagnosis Term (SAS PDT). The AAHA PDT were initially created and supported by the American Animal Hospital Association to provide standardized terms for use in general small animal practice in order to support better data collection in private practice. The success of the AAHA PDT led Blue Pearl Veterinary Partners to collaborate with VTSL in the creation of the SAS PDT to be used in conjunction with the AAHA PDT in specialty practice. As more and more veterinarians seek advanced training to expand their practices abilities to diagnose and treat their patients, it has become increasingly difficult to determine what content is needed for general practice and what is only of interest to a specialist. Therefore, VTSL has determined that the veterinary community will be best served by consolidation of these two subsets. The Small Animal Problem and Diagnosis Terms (SA-PDT) will replace both the AAHA PDT and the SAS PDT, and will contain all content relevant to small animal practice, inclusive of general, specialty and emergency practice. One last release of the SAS PDT is available which shows all content retired for completeness. The final SAS PDT release is available in the SAS project. The new consolidated SA-PDT is available in the SA PDT project. VTSL also continues to maintain the AAEP Problem and Diagnosis Terms for equine practice. It is available in the AAEP Project.


VetSCT©		 Veterinary Extension of SNOMED CT© - April 2023 Release Available

April 1, 2023
The veterinary extension has been updated. This extension release is compatible with the January 2023 International release of SNOMED CT. Licensed SNOMED CT users may obtain a copy of this release by logging into this site. Users in the United States who obtained a SNOMED license through the National Library of Medicine may login to VTSL with a UMLS credentials. Non-US users in member countries and users in non-member countries who have obtained an Affiliate license at SNOMED.ORG can contact VTSL at vtsl.info@vt.edu to establish an account here. Login to VTSL to access this update via the Download page in the Extension Project.

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The Veterinary Terminology Services Laboratory (VTSL) is dedicated to practical application of standardized medical terminologies which facilitates the recording and analysis of clinical information, supports translational research activities and thereby improve animal and public health. Governmental and private organizations contract with VTSL to support practical application of standardized terminologies in veterinary medicine and public health. VTSL client services include terminology management, facilitated collaboration and education.

Terminology Management & Resources

We provide a variety of services to veterinary organizations that wish to deploy standardized terminologies. We also maintain and distribute the Veterinary Extension to SNOMED CT as well as subsets for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, AAHA Diagnostic Terms and AAEP Diagnostic Terms.

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Facilitated Collaboration

We help veterinary organizations determine their own best approach to standardized terminologies.

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Education

We make educational materials available to veterinary organizations deploying standardized terminologies and provide educational opportunities to individual veterinarians.

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Terminology Development

SNOMED-CT®: VTSL provides expertise to the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) for evaluation of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT®) relative to its coverage of veterinary nomenclature and for the addition of new concepts that relate specifically to veterinary medicine.

Veterinary Adaptation of SNOMED-CT®: VTSL is developing a veterinary-specific adaptation of SNOMED-CT®. The long-term goal of this project is to create a terminology product that includes medical concepts of interest to our veterinary clients and excludes concepts that are not of veterinary interest. As part of this project we create and maintain a legal extension of the SNOMED-CT® core. This extension holds concepts that are of veterinary import as well as additional terms (synonyms) used by veterinarians that are not in common use in human medicine.

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