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Concepts will not be duplicated between the observable entity hierarchy and procedure hierarchy, and requests for such will not be added.  While some users have indicated they want to use a procedure concept for ordering a test and an observable concept for reporting the result, this is not an acceptable use case.SNOMED CT contains some concepts in the procedure hierarchy which logically belong in the observable entity hierarchy; these concepts will likely move to the observable entity hierarchy in the future. In addition, if existing duplicate concepts are identified between the two hierarchies, this will also be corrected.   Please see Observable Entity vs. Evaluation Procedure for more information. 

The evaluation procedure hierarchy is currently classified under Procedure by method, with many immediate children as follows:

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