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Leveraging previous work done by the British Columbia Provincial Laboratory Coordinating Office the following guiding principles and the accompanying set of rules were developed and used to establish a pan Canadian viewer name. These rules were collaboratively developed by a Standards Collaborative Working Group (SCWG) 5 working group taskforce comprised of laboratory subject matter experts from Infoway,British Columbia,Saskatchewan,New Brunswick and an international nomenclature subject matter expert from 3M.
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NOTE: Use of these viewer names is not tied to conformance specifications and lab implementations are able to use a nomenclature that best fits with their Clinical requirements. For the most part, these guiding principles and rules have only been applied to English terms and would require a review by French and/or bilingual implementers to provide specific guidance how to apply them in that language.
Definitions:
- ‘Shall be’ - The term is used to indicate mandatory requirements strictly to be followed and from which no deviation is permitted (shall equals is required to).
- ‘Shall NOT’ - Negative form of “Shall”?
- ‘May’ – The term is used to indicate a course of action permissible within the limits of the standard (may equals is permitted to).
- ‘Need NOT’ - The negative form of "may" is not "may not", but is "need not". The use of "may not" shall be avoided.
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