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SNOMED CT Implementation Guide for the Nutrition Care Process Terminology

The SNOMED CT Implementation Guide for Nutrition Care Process Terminology (NCPT) provides practical guidance for documenting nutrition and dietetics care using standardized SNOMED CT concepts. Aligned with the internationally recognized Nutrition Care Process (NCP), this guide supports consistent, interoperable data capture across electronic health systems to improve care quality, enable clinical decision support, and facilitate outcomes research.

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SNOMED CT Implementation Guide for the Nutrition Care Process Terminology

Please click the button to get a pdf version of the April 2026 version of this Implementation Guide.

Get PDF

This document is a publication of International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, trading as SNOMED International. SNOMED International owns and maintains SNOMED CT®.

SNOMED®, SNOMED CT® and IHTSDO® are registered trademarks of International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. SNOMED CT® licensing information is available at