I think that has been a decent assumption but now that we carry preferred_term in CODE_PHRASE, I think we can ‘liberate’ /value in a DV_CODED text to be the text value that was entered or seen by the clinician, which may well be different from the formal rubric of the associated defining_code.
Sorry a slight diversion from the original thread but I think the issues are pretty well identical whether we are trying to associate an external terminology with /value or /name/value.
It might be good to start a new thread to discuss external terms and mappings more generally?