This study evaluated the semantic proximity between terms in clinical archetypes and SNOMED CT concepts. The researchers analyzed 25 observation archetypes and manually mapped their data fragments to SNOMED CT concepts. They found that 30% of element fragments were subtypes of the root fragment, and 80% of value fragments were hierarchically related to other values in the same archetype. This high degree of semantic relatedness between archetype terms suggests that mapping archetypes to SNOMED CT could be improved by leveraging the relationships between concepts in SNOMED CT.