Find Hypertension using Hierarchical Concept Search in Coded Entries
Synopsis
This query searches the coded-entries for occurrences of problem entries that map to 38341003 | Hypertensive disorder, systemic arterial (disorder) | or the subtypes of hypertension in the SNOMED hierarchy. It also uses the internal relationships within coded-entries, to look up the statuses of the disorder as recorded in the structured elements of the CCD, and returns only those hypertension mentions for which status is given.
Processing Requirements
For this query, Continuity of Care Documents were processed. See processing requirements Processing Requirements.
Additionally, this query also requires the snomed relationships table. This table can be imported into the Output Database following the instructions provided here.
Clinical Context
In this case study, mentions of hypertension are present in the Problem List section, and have associated statuses (e.g. Active, Resolved etc. ) which are coded and present in the structured data.
This query uses the query pattern shown in the Find Problems with Statuses in Coded Entries query, and adds a hierarchical concept search for the SNOMED CT concept 38341003 | Hypertensive disorder, systemic arterial (disorder) |.
Essential hypertension (SNOMED CT 59621000) is a subtype of 38341003, so the hierarchical search finds it without it being named explicitly — it is the concept returned in the results below.
SQL query
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
Next steps
In addition to retrieving status descriptors from coded-entries, you may also be interested in searching for other status qualifiers present in the sentence fragments, and comments, that may not be coded by the document generator. In addition, to whether the problem is Active or Resolved, you may be interested in how well the condition is being managed. An example of how to use SNOMED concept search together with the NLP API qualifier relations to do this, see Hypertension Control.

