1. There are a total of 38,251 records this release, up from 38,246 in the previously released version. This version incorporates all of the applicable LOINC changes in version 2.66 as published by Regenstrief in June 2019.
2. 37,352 records have been translated to French, up from 37,347 in the last version. Terms that are marked ‘Review Draft’ should be reviewed before they are used as the translation has not been previously published. Terms that are marked as ‘Complete’ have been previously published.
3. 163 records were modified in English for this release and are marked as R05.10.00_2.66
a. 69 records are of the change type Major for English changes.
b. 15 records are of the change type Minor for English changes..
c. 48 records are of the change type Name for English changes.
d. 4 corrections were made to Viewer Names.
e. 22 records have been changed to Inactive and marked as Deprecated.
4. 5 new records were added for the English version.
5. 156 records were modified in French for this release and are marked as R05.10.00_2.66
a. 64 records are of the change type Major for the French translation.
b. 8 records are of the change type Minor for the French translation.
c. 50 records are of the change type Name for the French translation.
d. 7 corrections were made to Viewer Names.
e. 22 records have been changed to Inactive and marked as Deprecated.
6. 5 new records were added for the French version.
7. Both languages contain a number of codes that only have changes in the other language; those are identified as ‘No Change’.
Of specific interest in this release , current implementers may want to review these changes:
IMPORTANT NOTES KNOWN ISSUES regarding pCLOCD-20190731 (Microsoft Excel file)
The pan-Canadian Name field in English and French is generated from a formula that concatenates the pan-Canadian Component name (EN or FR) with one or more of the LOINC attributes of System, Time, Method or Property. The formula first looks up the attribute in the LOINC Element Substitution Table and will present the substitution attribute if the LOINC version is abbreviated or contains unnecessary punctuation (for example, BldA will display as Arterial Blood). With the authoring of our new release pCLOCD-20190131 we found periodic errors in the formula’s ability to make the substitution from the table. We have done our best to find and correct any errors but would like to caution our users to report any unusual displays in the pan-Canadian Name in English or French using InfoRMS. We are working on a long term solution to the problem with the formula, but for this release, it was a manual fix.