XMDR Content Survey - LOINC

II. Core Content Characterization

Title*

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®)

Acronym

LOINC

Web page(s)

http://www.regenstrief.org/loinc

Identifier

URI:ISO:2.16.840.1.113883.6.1

Contact Information

The Regenstrief Institute

1050 Wishard Blvd., RG6
Indianapolis, IN 46202-2872

Inclusion Rationale*

The US Consolidated Health Informatics Initiative(CHI) recommended and endorsed LOINC as the terminology of choice the electronic exchange of laboratory test orders and drug label section headers .

Subject*

• biological, biomedical, medical or healthcare

Kind of Metadata*

• Classification and Categorization
  • Classification/Categorization Schemes and Taxonomies

Size statistics(estimated)*

Approx 32,000 Terms

Initial Submitter*

Harold Solbrig solbrig@mayo.edu

Date of Initial Survey*

2005-03-10

III. Supplementary Content Characterization

The following attributes of the content characterization will be completed by XMDR staff. These attributes will be collected for those content collections which are considered to be high priority for inclusion in the prototype.

Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.

Date*

2005-01

Creator

The Regenstrief Institute

Publisher*

The Regenstrief Institute

Description*

LOINC Background Page

Language(s)*

English

Graph-theoretic Classification*

Indicate type of metadata according to the following graph-theoretic classification scheme:

• faceted classification (e.g., LOINC, ... )

Format / Schemas(s)*

MS Access Database

ASCII Text

Media / Download*

Is the metadata resource available for download? YES

Constraint Specifications

?

Protocol(s)

?

Licensing Issues*

NONE (See Copyright and Terms of Use)

Export restrictions

NONE

Subsets

?

Versions, Updates

Current Version - 2.14 (2004-12-1) Versions are currently released as neededs.

Documentation

See: LOINC User's Guide

Character Set Encoding*

UTF-8

Measurement units

UCUM (?)

Dataset / Standards Dependencies

?

Related Datasets

Other similar or related metadata resources.

Software tools

RELMA Browser

Audience(s)

MD's and Lab Technicians

Citation

LOINC_Committee. Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC). Regenstrief Institute. Available at: http://www.regenstrief.org/loinc/.

Surveyor*

Harold Solbrig

Date of Survey*

2005-03-11

IV. Content Characterization by XMDR Staff

The following data elements are to be supplied by XMDR project staff/collaborators.

Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.

XMDR Participant Expertise

Names of persons (if any) on XMDR project (and contact info) who are familiar with this data set. XMDR participant organizations who have copies of this metadata resource.

XMDR Evaluator*

Names of persons on XMDR project (and contact info) who evaluated this metadata resource for inclusion (e.g., if the content survey was completed by someone at the content repository).

Inclusion Priority*

Priority suggested for acquisition and ingestion of this metadata resource.