Reference Set Types

This section describes four categories of reference set types, each of which contain several sub-types.

• Content Reference Sets

  • Simple Reference Set

  • Attribute Value Reference Set

    • Component Inactivation Reference Sets

  • Association Reference Set

    • Historical Association Reference Sets

  • DEPRECATED: Annotation Reference Set

  • Query Specification Reference Set

  • DEPRECATED: Ordered Reference Set

    • Ordered Component Reference Set

    • Ordered Association Reference Set

  • OWL Expression Reference Set

  • Postcoordinated Expression Type Reference Set

• Language Reference Sets

  • Language Reference Set

• Map Reference Sets

  • Simple Map from SNOMED CT Reference Set

  • Simple Map to SNOMED CT Reference Set

  • Complex and Extended Map from SNOMED CT Reference Sets

  • Map to SNOMED CT with Correlation and Origin Reference Set

  • Code to Expression Reference Set

  • Simple map with correlation from SNOMED CT type reference set

  • Simple map with correlation to SNOMED CT type reference set

  • Simple map with correlation from SNOMED CT to SNOMED CT type reference set

• Metadata Reference Sets

  • Reference Set Descriptor

  • Module Dependency Reference Set

  • Description Format Reference Set

  • MRCM Domain Reference Set

  • MRCM Attribute Domain Reference Set

  • MRCM Attribute Range Reference Set

  • MRCM Module Scope Reference Set

  • Component Annotation String Value Reference Set

  • Member Annotation String Value Reference Set

Each reference set type follows a pattern and that pattern is also represented in a machine readable form using a set of Reference Set Descriptor members (known as a Descriptor Template, for short). In most case, the same pattern may be used to define a number of different reference sets to serve a variety of purposes. However, there are also some highly specific reference set types that exist for a single specified purpose. These are the Reference Set Descriptor Reference Set, Module Dependency Reference Set and Description Format Reference Set.

In each subsection, a reference set type is described under the following subheadings:

• The purpose of the reference set;

• The format of the reference set member record is detailed in a table;

• The metadata supporting the reference set;

• The machine readable reference set descriptor member records for the reference set type;

• Examples of the reference set type;

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