| DESCRIPTION |
Per VHA Directive, this file has been 'locked down' by Data
The LAB LOINC file contains an extraction of the LOINC database. The
LOINC database provides sets of universal names and ID codes for
identifying laboratory and clinical test results. The LAB LOINC file is
used to map the Laboratory WKLD CODE file(#64), also known as the National
Laboratory Test file, to LOINC codes.
This file is a standard file distributed by Dallas CIOFO and should
not be edited locally.
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not be modified. All additions, changes and deprecation to entries in
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condition and LOINC code use.
Permission was granted, without written agreement and without license or
royalty fees, to use, copy, or distribute the LOINC codes, LOINC User's
Guide, and the contents of the LOINC database for any purpose, so long as
this copyright notice appears on any copies of the LOINC database and
Users' Guide, and that the following conditions are met.
The Department of Veterans Affairs agrees to the following conditions:
this file shall be done by Enterprise Reference Terminology (ERT) using
1. Will not change the meanings of any of the LOINC codes.
2. Will not change any content in the defined LOINC fields.
3. Will include this notice of copyright and terms in any copies of the
LOINC database distributed.
4. If new records are added to the LOINC database as distributed to deal
with local requirements, these records will be assigned a LOINC code
the Master File Server (MFS), provided by the Common Services (CS).
containing a leading alphabetic "X" so that the new term cannot be
confused with new LOINC codes as they are assigned by the LOINC
committee.
5. Incorporation of any part of the LOINC database into another laboratory
test definition database for distribution outside of their corporation
must include the LOINC code (field #1) all six names fields (#2-7), the
related terms field (#8), and the answer list field (#19), and include
this copyright notice on the electronic document that incorporates the
LOINC database.
Creating and/or editing locally defined fields in the file are not
Regenstrief Institute and members of the LOINC Consortium do not accept
liability for any omissions or errors in the LOINC database, and all
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permitted. Use of locally defined fields that were created prior to
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