LOINC and SNOMED CT Code Use in Electronic Laboratory Reporting - US, 2011

Authors

  • Sanjaya Dhakal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Sherry Burrer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Carla A. Winston Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Matthew Miller McKing Consulting
  • Samuel L. Groseclose Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4447

Abstract

Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) has the potential to be more accurate, timely, and cost-effective. However, the continuing use of non-standard, local codes to represent laboratory test results complicates the use of ELR data in public health practice. Use of structured and standardized coding system(s) to support the concepts represented by local codes improves the computational characteristics of ELR data. We examined the use of LOINC and SNOMED CT codes for coding laboratory tests in hospital laboratory reports. We found that the hospitals more frequently used LOINC codes than SNOMED CT in reporting test results.

Author Biography

Sanjaya Dhakal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

- Epidemiologist with BioSense team since September, 2011. - Epidemiologist at Vaccine Analytic Unit (CDC)- 1 year - EIS assignment at Food and Drug Administration, 2008-2010 - Worked 3+ years at Cancer Research Center of Hawaii - PhD, Epidemiology (Pittsburgh University) - M. Phil., Health Sciences (Norway) - M.Sc., Statistics- Demography (Nepal) - Originally from Nepal - Speaks Nepali, English & Hindi

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Dhakal, S., Burrer, S., Winston, C. A., Miller, M., & Groseclose, S. L. (2013). LOINC and SNOMED CT Code Use in Electronic Laboratory Reporting - US, 2011. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4447

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