Tests

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Last updated: Feb 04, 2016 by Angshuman Sarkar
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LOINC is the chosen standard for clinical and laboratory tests and observations.

 

Briefly, every test/terminology in LOINC has 17 attributes. Wiki lists the following 6 six fields as unique specification of each identified single test, observation, or measurement-

  • Component
  •  Property
  •  Time aspect
  •  System
  •  Scale
  •  Method

Every test has a unique code/ID in the format - nnnnn-n, short name and long name.

 

LOINC has comprehensive guide and documentation and tools. Start here

 

http://search.loinc.org/

Use this link to look up LOINC terminologies. 

 

https://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/FHIR-Develop/loinc.html