6.2.1.19. Record artifact

A | Record artifact | is an entity that is created by a person or persons for the purpose of providing other people with information about events or states of affairs. In general, a record is virtual, that is, it is independent of its particular physical instantiation(s), and consists of its information elements (usually words, phrases and sentences, but also numbers, graphs, and other information elements). | Record artifact | need not be complete reports or complete records. They can be parts of larger | Record artifact |. For example, a complete health record is a | Record artifact | that also may contain other | Record artifact | in the form of individual documents or reports, which in turn may contain more finely granular | Record artifact | such as sections and even section headers.

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1. Preface
2. Overview of the guide
3. SNOMED CT implementation
4. Structure and Content Guide
5. Release File Specifications
6. Concept Model Guide
7. Terminology Services Guide
8. Record Services Guide
9. Change Management Guide
10. Extension Services Guide
12. References
6.2.1.1. Summary of Top Level Hierarchies
6.2.1.2. Clinical finding
6.2.1.3. Procedure
6.2.1.4. Situation with explicit context
6.2.1.5. Observable entity
6.2.1.6. Body structure
6.2.1.7. Organism
6.2.1.8. Substance
6.2.1.9. Pharmaceutical/biologic product
6.2.1.10. Specimen
6.2.1.11. Physical object
6.2.1.12. Physical force
6.2.1.13. Event
6.2.1.14. Environments and geographic locations
6.2.1.15. Social context
6.2.1.16. Staging and scales
6.2.1.17. Qualifier value
6.2.1.18. Special concept
6.2.1.20. Core metadata concept
6.2.1.21. Foundation metadata concept
6.2.1.22. Linkage concept

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