Release Notes: Version 20190109

DateJanuary 9, 2019
AccessTerminology Gateway
Release TypeMaintenance Release

About this maintenance release 

This release includes the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set files (version 20190109).  

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.

January 2019 CCDD Files
Number of Concepts
Types of Changes in this release
Therapeutic Moiety Full Release1244

66 additions

Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product Full Release3609

132 additions (130 for new TMs; 2 for existing TMs)

1 NTP formal name change as a result of a DPD change (see below)

1 status change from active to inactive

15 status date changes with no change of status (including 14 concepts with a status of Deprec)

Manufactured Product Full Release10136

281 additions

  • 17 MPs for existing NTP/TMs
  • 262 MPs for new TMs
  • 2 MPs for new NTPs for an existing TM

Formal name changes made:

  • 1 Company change
  • 20 DPD product name changes
  • 2 formal name change as a result of a change in salt description in DPD (from bosutinib to bosutinib monohydrate)
  • 1 MP formal name change as a result of a change in DPD that affected the corresponding NTP (see below)

30 status changes from active to inactive

3 status changes from inactive to active

12 status date changes (no change of status)

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

10133

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Deprecated concepts have been excluded.

Device Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product3no change
Special Groupings1766

6 additional entries due to new concepts

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Coded Attributes7

no change

NTP Formal Name Change

The following concept has been updated with no change in identifier to reflect a change to an existing ingredient in DPD as follows:

ntp_code January Releasentp_formal_name January Releasentp_code December Releasentp_formal_name December Release
9012508levofloxacin 240 mg per 2.4 mL inhalation solution unit dose vial9012508levofloxacin 240 mg per 2.4 mL inhalation solution unit dose ampoule

 

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