Release Notes:  Version 20191004

DateOctober 4, 2019 
AccessTerminology Gateway
Release TypeMaintenance Release

About this maintenance release 

This release includes the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set files (version 20191004).  

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.

October 2019 CCDD Files
Number of Concepts
Types of Changes in this release
Therapeutic Moiety Full Release1455

6 additions

3 formal name changes with no change in code (see technical corrections below)

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

Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product Full Release4298

9 additions

2 formal name changes with no change in code (see technical correction details below)

6 status changes

  • 5 active to inactive
  • 1 inactive to active

2 status date changes with no change of status

Manufactured Product Full Release11618

31 additions

Formal name changes made:

  • 10 DPD company changes
  • 14 DPD company name change
  • 19 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)

45 status changes from active to inactive

3 status changes from inactive to active

3 status date changes (no change of status) that includes 2 with company change

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

11611

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


TM Changes

The following TM technical corrections to the formal name occurred" 

tm_code October Releasetm_formal_name October Releasetm_code September Releasetm_formal_name September Release

8001774

filgrastim (conventional)

8001774

filgrastim

8001814

interferon beta-1a (conventional)

8001814

interferon beta-1a

8002057

filgrastim (pegfilgrastim)

8002057

filgrastim

NTP Changes

The following NTP formal name technical corrections occurred:

ntp_code October Releasentp_formal_name October Releasentp_code September Releasentp_formal_name September Release
9009358estradiol 7.5 mcg per 24 hour vaginal delivery system9009358

estradiol 2 mg ring (slow release)

9013502 filgrastim (pegfilgrastim) 6 mg per 0.6 mL solution for injection syringe9013502pegfilgrastim 6 mg per 0.6 mL solution for injection syringe

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