We didn't save it to save space since the preferred text can be retrieved elsewhere once you have the code or cui. If we add it, I think we should have an option to turn off/on including it.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chen, Pei Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [DISCUSS] CTS - Adding preferred names An idea/suggestion to the Common Type System: Add preferred/resolved names in addition to the CUI's/Codes. Mainly adding some additional fields to save this information: -Segement.preferredText<String> -IdentifiedAnnotation.preferredText<String> or UmlsConcept.preferredText<String> I believe this info should already be available, we just didn't save it in the CTS. --Pei
