Symptoms: chest pain without confirmed diagnosis

PH3750 / 8880

OpenSAFELY

Jan 26, 2026

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OpenCodelists Phenotype

  1. Overview

    Codelist ID
    opensafely/symptoms-chest-pain-unexplained
    Version ID
    0d0d5f59
    Coding System
    SNOMED CT codes
    Collections
    OpenCodelistPhenotype Library
    Tags
    No data

  2. Definition

    This codelist was taken from OpenCodelists, created by OpenSAFELY. We recommend viewing this Phenotype on the OpenCodelist website to view the most recent version.

    Code list aiming to identify individuals consulting complaining of chest pain. Aiming to identify unexplained chest pain.

    © University of Oxford for the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science 2025. This work may be copied freely for non-commercial research and study.

  3. Methodology

    Identified from intial search terms outside of OpenCodelists: "chest pain" "costochondritis" "rib pain" "parasternal" "precordi" "praecord" chest wall" "chest discomfort" retrosternal" "painful respir" "retrosternal" "painful breath"

    Clearly irrelevant codes excluded (with review by a second clinician)

    Candidate codelist uploaded to OpenCodelists for review of candidate codes.

    Excluded definite diagnoses. Specifically excluded codes related to rapid access chest pain clinic as local guidelines for these clinics may include those with cardiac symptoms other than chest pain (e.g., shortness of breath).

  4. References

    Source Reference

    https://www.opencodelists.org/codelist/opensafely/symptoms-chest-pain-unexplained/0d0d5f59

  5. Clinical Codelist

  6. API

    To Export Phenotype Details:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH3750/version/8880/detail/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_details = client$phenotypes$get_detail(
     'PH3750',
     version_id=8880
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_detail = client.phenotypes.get_detail(
     'PH3750',
     version_id=8880
    )

    To Export Phenotype Code List:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH3750/version/8880/export/codes/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client$phenotypes$get_codelist(
     'PH3750',
     version_id=8880
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client.phenotypes.get_codelist(
     'PH3750',
     version_id=8880
    )

  7. Version History

    Version IDNameOwnerPublish date
    Symptoms: chest pain without confirmed diagnosis ieuan.scanlon2026-01-26 23:32
    8879 Symptoms: chest pain without confirmed diagnosis ieuan.scanlon2026-01-26 23:32