It facilitates the practical application of data, collected using an existing primary care terminology, to issues of need and demand for specialist surgical services.
We have developed a new classification of an existing primary care terminology to facilitate integration and coordination between primary care and specialist sectors that have traditionally had language and classification differences.
The first, second and third levels were given three, four and five-letter codes respectively, while the fourth level retained the original six-digit codes of the primary care terminology.
Besides, the DICOM Standards Committee made a choice for SNOMED as its primary source of terminology and created its own terminology resource (named DICOM Controlled Terminology) when the needed terms cannot be found from existing resources.
Recently, an International Working Group of recognized experts defined standard terminology of primary ITP and criteria of outcome and response [ 12].
Firstly, the terminology used to describe primary care, primary care professionals, and primary care activities is diverse and non-standardised, which can hamper efficient retrieval.
Patient stratification and risk adjustment are associated with Current Procedural Terminology codes and primary disease diagnosis is not considered.
For database terminology such as primary, candidate, foreign key, etc., we refer the reader to standard database textbooks (e.g., [ 21]).
All terminology relating to primary care in the 'Suggested components of the Tinnitus network' section of the GPG was selected as keywords.
Whilst the search terms used were thought to be broad enough to capture most relevant publications, it is possible that there is research that was not caught in our searches, because of the omission of one or other of the strata of terminologies, for example, primary care or general practi* or family practi*.
