Release Notes:  Version 20190509

DateMay 9, 2019 
AccessTerminology Gateway
Release TypeMaintenance Release

About this maintenance release 

This release includes the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set files (version 20190509).  

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.

May 2019 CCDD Files
Number of Concepts
Types of Changes in this release
Therapeutic Moiety Full Release1388

29 additions

2 status change from active to inactive

1 minor concept spelling change

Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product Full Release4026

91 additions

5 NTP formal name changes due to changes in DPD

9 status changes from active to inactive

3 status changes from active to deprecated (see NTP change below)

16 status date changes with no change of status

Manufactured Product Full Release11083

173 additions

  • 24 MPs for existing NTPs
  • 146 MPs for new TMs
  • 3 for new NTPs for existing TMs

Formal name changes made:

  • 4 DPD company changes
  • 2 DPD company name changes
  • 1 DPD product with name change and company change
  • 4 DPD product name changes
  • 9 DPD changes as a result of an update to the NTP

31 status changes from active to inactive

18 status date changes (no change of status)

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

11080

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Deprecated concepts have been excluded.

Device Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product3no change
Special Groupings1824

6 additional entries due to new concepts

3 new entries due to additional policy references added (Schedule G (CDSA I))

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Coded Attributes7

no change

NTP Changes

The following NTP concepts had a change in status from active to deprecated due to changes in DPD making these NTPs no longer needed. 

ntp_code 

ntp_formal_name 

9000759valproic acid (sodium valproate) 250 mg per 5 mL syrup
9000413dexamethasone 0.5 mg per 5 mL oral liquid
9002933dextromethorphan hydrobromide 7.5 mg per 5 mL syrup

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