Concept Library Documentation

Overview

The concept library is a system for storing, managing, sharing, and documenting clinical code lists in health research. The specific goals of this work are:

• Store code lists along with metadata that captures important information about quality, author, etc.
• Store version history and provide a way to unambiguously reference a particular version of a code list.
• Allow programmatic interaction with code lists via an API, so that they can be directly used in queries, statistical scripts, etc.
• Provide a mechanism for sharing code lists between projects and organizations.

Access

The Concept Library is currently available to users of the SAIL Databank. Log in using your SAIL credentials to the following sites:

External: conceptlibrary.saildatabank.com

Internal: conceptlibrary.sail.ukserp.ac.uk (enter this address in your web browser inside the SAIL gateway).

General Information

Introduction to the Concept Library

Tutorials

1. Search and View Concepts

2. Creating and Editing Concepts

3. Create and Edit Working Sets

Connecting to the Concept Library API from R

4. API Client Access