Release Notes: Version 20181212

DateDecember 12, 2018
AccessTerminology Gateway
Release TypeMaintenance Release

About this maintenance release 

This release includes the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set files (version 20181212).  

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.  

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 95% of the DPD content in scope for CCDD.  

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

December 2018 CCDD Files
Number of Concepts
Types of Changes in this release
Therapeutic Moiety Full Release1178

70 additions

2 status change from inactive to active

Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product Full Release3477

209 additions (203 for new TMs; 6 for existing TMs)

3 status changes from active to inactive

1 status change from inactive to active

1 status date changes (with no change of status)

Manufactured Product Full Release9855

279 additions

  • 22 MPs for existing TMs
  • 253 MPs for new TMs
  • 4 MPs for new NTPs for an existing TM

Formal name changes made:

  • Company changes
    • 19 DPD company change
    • 17 DPD company name change from HOSPIRA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION to HOSPIRA HEALTHCARE ULC
    • 404 DPD company name change from PFIZER CANADA INC to PFIZER CANADA ULC
  • 20 DPD product name changes
  • 1 formal name change as a result of a change in salt description in DPD (from mupirocin calcium dihydrate to mupirocin calcium)
  • 2 DPD product and company changes

11 status changes from active to inactive

4 status changes from inactive to active

15 status date changes (no change of status)

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

9852

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Deprecated concepts have been excluded.

Device Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product3no change
Special Groupings1760

210 additional entries due to new concepts

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Coded Attributes7

no change

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