LOINC®(finally) speaks Italian …but it needs to practice!
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LOINC®(finally) speaks Italian …but it needs to practice! Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis June
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C onsiglio N azionale delle R icerche. LOINC®(finally) speaks Italian …but it needs to practice!. Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti. Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis June 6-7, 2011. Why do we need LOINC? (1). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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LOINC®(finally) speaks Italian…but it needs to practice!
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee MeetingRegenstrief Institute, Indianapolis June 6-7, 2011
Why do we need LOINC? (1)
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Nomenclatore Tariffario Regionale
A regional list of names and codes for laboratory observations, exclusively used for reimbursement
Lab 1
Lab 2
Lab 3
Why do we need LOINC? (2)
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Nomenclatori Tariffari Regionali
Obsolete (1996)
1. n:1 mapping multiple lab tests are mapped to one regional code
2. Not every lab test is mapped no correspondences found
3. Cost similarity based mapping lab tests are mapped to the cost closest regional code
InFSE project and LOINC ItaliaInFSE: National and international interoperability of thelocal electronic health infrastructuresWP3: design and development of methodologies and software
components for patients unique encodingLOINC Italia (www.loinc-italia.it)
Implementing LOINC as nationalstandard for laboratory observations encoding
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
5 testing regionsMolinette Hospital and
School of Medicine, Torino
Work stepsTranslation of the LOINC parts file (11,748 parts)Italian linguistic variant in LOINC 2.34 and RELMA 5.0 release
(December 2010)Revision of all translated parts
Translational rulesLinguistic solutionsIssues and answers
New Italian translation in LOINC 2.35 and RELMA 5.2 release (June 2011)
Translation of the LOINC Users’ Guide
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Translational rulesLOINC acronyms and abbreviations:
Italian equivalent acronym/abbreviation, if availablee.g. CSF LCS
Full form in Italiane.g. BPU Unità di prodotto sangue
English acronym/abbreviation, if it is used in Italye.g. GnRH, Ab, DNA, HIV
LOINC acronym/abbreviation and its explanation (PROPERTY)
Latin names only post and pre are ‘translated’ in Italian in the Synonyms field
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Linguistic solutionsComma and words order exchange – COMPONENTS:
Comma and words order exchange – SUFFIXES:
2 commas
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Mouse epithelium topoEpitelio di
,
leukotriene release Leucotrieni, rilascio
COMPONENT + rilascio di leucotrieni,
18q chromosome deletion 18q, cromosoma, delezione
Issues and answersLOINC LOINC ITALIA
Challenge test Test di provocazione StimulationAdministrationFrench: provocationSpanish: provocación
Rest absorption (METHOD)
Assorbimento RESt (Rabbit Erythrocyte Stroma)
Could not figure out it is an acronym
Engorgement (COMPONENT)
Congestione No literal translation, need to find out the meaning
Dander Forfora Even though it doesn’t cover exactly the same semantic area
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Preliminary resultsLOINC 2.34 and
RELMA 5.0 (December 2010)
LOINC 2.35 and RELMA 5.2(June 2011)
LOINC parts translated 11,748 11,748
LOINC synonyms (part level) 3,341 6,026
LOINC codes generated 43,152 43,720
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Open issues: Synonyms of fully translated names Open questions being discussed among our domain experts
LOINC Italian Tool - Ver. 0.1 Beta (1)
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
View of mapping choices already done by others
Mapping to regional reimbursement codes
LOINC code details
Next stepsMapping local codes to LOINC codes in testing regions
Mapping analysisErrorsMisunderstandingsNeeds Submissions
Panel level mapping
Most common test and other analysis on the data
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AcknowledgementsClement J. McDonaldDaniel J. VreemanKathy MercerLorie Carey
Claudia Bessone
Roberto GuarasciPino Cavarretta
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Questions and suggestions
Public Laboratory LOINC Workshop & Committee Meeting Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - June 6-7, 2011
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
www.loinc-italia.it
Thank you for your attention!
