Release Notes:  Version 20190909

DateSeptember 9, 2019 
AccessTerminology Gateway
Release TypeMaintenance Release

About this maintenance release 

This release includes the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set files (version 20190909).  

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 all of the top 250 moieties and approximately 99% of the DPD content in scope for CCDD.  

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

September 2019 CCDD Files
Number of Concepts
Types of Changes in this release
Therapeutic Moiety Full Release1449

15 additions

6 status change from active to inactive (as a result of related MPs no longer being active)

1 status date change

Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product Full Release4289

67 additions

22 status changes

  • 19 active to inactive
  • 3 inactive to active

2 formal name changes (see technical correction details below)

2 status date changes with no change of status

Manufactured Product Full Release11587

122 additions

Formal name changes made:

  • 6 DPD company changes
  • 1 DPD company name change
  • 4 DPD product with name change and company change
  • 5 DPD product name changes
  • 3 formal name changes with no change in the code as a result of the NTP technical corrections (as specified within the NTP change details)

133 status changes from active to inactive

3 status changes from inactive to active

66 status date changes (no change of status)

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

11580

Includes concept additions and changes as above

Deprecated concepts have been excluded.

Device Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product3no change
Special Groupings1840

14 additional concepts added

Includes concept changes as above

Coded Attributes7

no change


NTP Changes

The following NTP technical corrections occurred:

9002165acetaminophen 650 mg per sachet and phenylephrine hydrochloride 10 mg per sachet oral powder9002165acetaminophen 650 mg per pck and phenylephrine hydrochloride 10 mg per pck oral powder
9009618furosemide 250 mg per 25 mL solution for injection vial9009618furosemide 250 mg per 25 mL solution for injection 25 mL vial

ntp_code September Release

ntp_formal_name September Release

ntp_code August Release

ntp_formal_name August Release

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