title: Are posttraumatic stress disorder mental health terms found in SNOMED-CT medical terminology.
abstract: The authors sought to evaluate how well the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) controlled vocabulary represents terms commonly used clinically when documenting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A list was constructed based on the PTSD criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994), symptom assessment instruments, and publications. Although two teams mapping the terms to SNOMED-CT differed in their approach, the consensus mapping accounted for 91% of the 153 PTSD terms. They found that the words used by clinicians in describing PTSD symptoms are represented in SNOMED-CT. These results can be used to codify mental health text reports for health information technology applications such as automated chart abstraction, algorithms for identifying documentation of symptoms representing PTSD in clinical notes, and clinical decision support.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Informatics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. brett.trusko@mssm.edu
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Trusko
authors.forename: S Trent
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Rosenbloom
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Montella
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Fern
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fitzhenry
authors.forename: Steven H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Peter L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Elkin
authors.forename: Elliot
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fielstein
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kotter
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tuttle
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Iannelli
authors.forename: Theodore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Speroff
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D009626:Terminology as Topic