New LOINC codes are added in pCLOCD solely on stakeholder requests. Infoway only adds LOINC content identified by jurisdictions as being used or as required, in this way we support pCLOCD being representative of usage and requirements in Canada.
For your convenience, a list of all newly published LOINC codes in the latest release is available for download. If your jurisdiction requires existing LOINC codes added to pCLOCD, please submit your request via InfoRMS.
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New LOINC codes published in LOINC Version 2.77 |
Currently there are approximately 180 clinical LOINC document codes in the pan
Canadian LOINC Observation Code Database.
The existing Clinical LOINC codes were added to the pCLOCD at the request of now retired Standards Collaborative Working Group 2 (SCWG 2) in support of the pan- Canadian version 3 messages. SCWG 2 wanted concepts that were represented in the Master Terminology Worksheet (MTW) to be reflected in the pCLOCD.
In 2015, Infoway began to receive more requests to add Clinical LOINC codes to LOINC
and we asked stakeholders about adding the new concepts to the pCLOCD.
Implementers requested that these LOINC codes not be added to the pCLOCD going forward. It was expressed that outside of the LOINC attributes, the rest of the fields in the pCLOCD were not relevant and adding these codes would increase the overall maintenance burden for implementers without providing any additional value.
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