Release Notes; Version 20180912

DateSeptember 12, 2018
AccessTerminology Gateway
Release TypeMaintenance Release

About this maintenance release 

This release includes the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set files (version 20180912).  

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.  There have been enhancements made to the Gateway change logs with this release.  Stakeholders can now distinguish concept changes made to the status and effective date in addition to name changes.

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.

NOTE:  The “Delta" release which is intended to contain only those concepts that have been added or changed since the previous release will be considered for a future enhancement at a later date.  

This release continues to add additional content from the DPD and includes most of the top 250 moieties and approximately 79% of the DPD content in scope for CCDD.  

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

September 2018 CCDD Files
Number of Concepts
Types of Changes in this release
Therapeutic Moiety Full Release867

147 additions

5 status change from active to inactive

1 status date change (no change in status)

Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product Full Release2728

308 additions (306 for new TMs and 2 for existing TMs)

29 status changes (Active to Inactive)

4 status date changes (with no change of status)

9 existing deprecated concepts changed status date

Manufactured Product Full Release8644

474 additions

  • 22 MPs for existing TMs
  • 450 for new TMs
  • 2 for new NTPs for existing TMs

Formal name changes made:

  • 8 DPD company change
  • 14 DPD product name changes

264 status changes (Active to Inactive)

8 status changes (Inactive to Active)

19 status date changes (no change of status)

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

8643

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Deprecated concepts have been excluded.

Device Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product3no change
Special Groupings1503

3 additions

2 updated entry due to an updated MP Formal Name

Coded Attributes7

no change

Questions, Concerns, Changes

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