March 2024 pCLOCD release is now available

Latest pan-Canadian LOINC Observation Code Database (pCLOCD) release R05.20.00_2.77 is now available for review and implementation accessible from Terminology Gateway.

Highlights of this release includes:

• Updates based on February LOINC® 2.77 release:
  • LOINC’s collaboration with SNOMED International resulted in the improved modeling and representation of the System axis “Respiratory”. 17 Concepts with system “Respiratory” have been updated.
  • As part of the Semi-Quantitative Clean up project, (32) Challenge and (5) Chemistry Class Concepts that had Property value "PrThr" and Scale “SemiQn” that were reverted back to Scale “Ordinal”.
• Changes based on pCLOCD Community:
  • Requests for change resulted in the addition of 11 existing multi-class LOINC Codes and 4 Newly published LOINC codes in v2.77 in English and French
  • Corrections to multi-attributes in LOINC records applied in English and French.

Learn more about all the changes in pCLOCD release notes.

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