304686002

SNOMED CT concept 304686002 is "Ability to make considered choices" (FSN: Ability to make considered choices (observable entity)). It sits in the observable entity semantic tag.

No direct ICD-10-CM mapping is recorded for Ability to make considered choices in this build. SNOMED CT and ICD-10 do not always have one-to-one mappings; some concepts only map through UMLS or remain unmapped.

Ability to make considered choices is grouped under UMLS CUI C0582592. UMLS CUIs let you bridge between SNOMED CT and other terminologies (ICD-10, ICD-11, LOINC, RxNorm).

Ability to make considered choices is in the SNOMED CT "observable entity" semantic tag. Semantic tags partition the terminology by what kind of clinical idea each concept represents (finding, disorder, procedure, body structure, substance, and so on).

SNOMED CT is the world's most comprehensive clinical terminology, with around 350,000 active concepts covering diseases, findings, procedures, body structures, and substances. It is the recommended terminology for EHR problem lists in many countries.

SNOMED CT describes clinical meaning. ICD-10 (and ICD-10-CM) describes billing categories. The SNOMED to ICD-10-CM map (maintained by NLM) gives one or more ICD codes per SNOMED concept. We expose those mappings on each concept page and through the cross_references field on the API.

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