# uru

## URU

**This is an abbreviation for understandability, reproducibility and usefulness.**

## understandability, reproducibility and usefulness

Criteria applied to test the validity of new SNOMED CT concepts and design features.

#### Notes

* **Understandable.** The meaning of a concept can be understood by most healthcare providers, without reference to private or inaccessible information.
* **Reproducible.** Multiple users apply the concept to the same situations.
* **Useful.** The concept has a practical value to users that is self-evident or can be readily explained.

## Alternatives

* **URU**

## Related Links

* [Examining SNOMED from the Perspective of Formal Ontological Principles](http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-102/spackman.pdf)

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