Huff S M, Rocha R A, McDonald C J, De Moor G J, Fiers T, Bidgood W D, Forrey A W, Francis W G, Tracy W R, Leavelle D, Stalling F, Griffin B, Maloney P, Leland D, Charles L, Hutchins K, Baenziger J
Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, USA.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998 May-Jun;5(3):276-92. doi: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050276.
The LOINC (Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes) vocabulary is a set of more than 10,000 names and codes developed for use as observation identifiers in standardized messages exchanged between clinical computer systems. The goal of the study was to create universal names and codes for clinical observations that could be used by all clinical information systems. The LOINC names are structured to facilitate rapid matching, either automated or manual, between local vocabularies and the universal LOINC codes. If LOINC codes are used in clinical messages, each system participating in data exchange needs to match its local vocabulary to the standard vocabulary only once. This will reduce both the time and cost of implementing standardized interfaces. The history of the development of the LOINC vocabulary and the methodology used in its creation are described.
LOINC（逻辑观察标识符名称和代码）词汇表是一组超过10000个名称和代码，用于在临床计算机系统之间交换的标准化消息中作为观察标识符。该研究的目标是为临床观察创建可被所有临床信息系统使用的通用名称和代码。LOINC名称的结构便于在本地词汇表和通用LOINC代码之间进行快速匹配，无论是自动匹配还是手动匹配。如果在临床消息中使用LOINC代码，每个参与数据交换的系统只需将其本地词汇表与标准词汇表匹配一次。这将减少实现标准化接口的时间和成本。本文描述了LOINC词汇表的发展历史及其创建所使用的方法。
