Release Notes; Version 20180713

DateJuly 13, 2018
AccessTerminology Gateway
Release TypeMaintenance Release

About this maintenance release 

This release includes the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set files (version 20180713) .  PLEASE NOTE,  A VERSION 20180712 WAS PUBLISHED ON GATEWAY  BUT REMOVED WITHIN 24 HR DUE TO A  REQUIRED CONTENT CORRECTION.  

The Editorial Guidelines and the Technical Specification have not been revised with this release. 

The Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set is available for browsing and download via the Infoway Terminology Gateway.  Supporting general information can be found on Infoway Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set InfoCentral page where all the standards are provided.  

General Notes

The following files will be available as full release files within this version:

  • Manufactured Product,
  • Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product,
  • Therapeutic Moiety,
  • Manufactured Product, Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product, Therapeutic Product Relationship,
  • Special Groupings, 
  • Coded Attribute, and
  • Device Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product.

The 'Full" release contains one entry for every concept that has ever been released and new content added for that release.   New content added for a specific release may at times include “Inactive” content.

The “Delta" release which is intended to contain only those concepts that have been added or changed since the previous release will be provided in a future release.  

This release continues to add additional content from the DPD and includes most of the top 250 moieties and approximately 65% of the DPD content.  

The table below provides the number of concepts within each CCDD file for this release.

July 2018 CCDD Files
Number of Concepts
Types of Changes in this release
Therapeutic Moiety Full Release624

89 additions

1 status change from active to inactive

1 status date change (no change in status)

Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product Full Release2211

221 additions (for new TMs)

5 status changes (Active to Inactive)

2 status date changes (with no change of status)

9 existing deprecated concepts changed status date

Manufactured Product Full Release7804

445 additions

  • 41 MPs for existing TMs
  • 404 for new TMs

Formal name changes made:

  • 2 DPD company change
  • 15 DPD product name changes

59 status changes (Active to Inactive)

24 status date changes (no change of status)

Manufactured Product, Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product, Therapeutic Moiety Relationship

7803

Includes concept additions as above

Deprecated concepts have been excluded.

Device Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product3no change
Special Groupings1497

63 additions

Includes concept additions as above

Coded Attributes7

no change


MP Specific Comments

It is the intent of the CCDD formal names to always be unique.  However, in this release there remains a few Manufactured Product concept formal names that did not generate uniquely following the CCDD Manufactured Product naming pattern as documented in the MP Formal Name Pattern section of the Editorial Guidelines. See below for an example:

02028174

ACETAMINOPHEN, CAFFEINE & CODEINE (acetaminophen 300 mg and caffeine 15 mg and codeine phosphate 8 mg oral tablet) PHARMASCIENCE INC

02025337

ACETAMINOPHEN, CAFFEINE & CODEINE (acetaminophen 300 mg and caffeine 15 mg and codeine phosphate 8 mg oral tablet) PHARMASCIENCE INC

This lack of unique formal names for the Manufactured Product is on the road map to be addressed in the future.

Terminology Gateway Specific Comments

A link to the Release notes on this page has been added to the Gateway CCDD files.  Users may use the  "Change Logs"  available when viewing each individual file on the Gateway.  The change logs identify the additions and changes to a code or formal name only. If there has been a change to a status or status date, it will not appear in the change log at this time.

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