As you can see, the terms include all sorts of things that may be required in order to describe the condition, circumstances or treatment of a patient. There are different types of Clinical Terminology, and they have different purposes. Clinical Terminologies allow structured clinical information to be created, which in turn means that it can be manipulated by a computer.
All clinical terminologies store unique codes to represent each term in the terminology.
One of those codes is longer than the others. A qualified concept is merely one which consists of a Core Concept plus one or more Qualifiers . A qualifier is an optional extra detail which does not alter the meaning of the Core Concept. Right side is a Qualifier of the Core Concept Note that the Qualifier is made up of a Property Side and a Value for that Property Right side . Each of these is allocated a code.