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Table. 1. Health terminology standards adopted by six OECD member countries by domain
Domain Australia Canada Japan Korea UK US
Diagnosis SNOMED CT - AU ICD-10-CA, DSM-IV, SNOMED CT Japanese standard disease code master based on ICD-10 KCD-7 (Korean version based on ICD-10) SNOMED CT, ICD-10 SNOMED CT, ICD-10
Medication SNOMED CT - AU Drug Identification Number, ATC, CCD Standard Master for Pharmaceutical Products KD Code SNOMED CT, UK Drug Extension, dm+d RxNorm, National Drug Code
Laboratory LOINC LOINC Laboratory Test Code Master EDI SNOMED CT LOINC
Radiology SNOMED CT – AU, DICOM SNOMED CT, DICOM DICOM EDI, DICOM SNOMED CT, NICIP Code Set LOINC
Surgery and procedures ICD-10-AM, SNOMED CT - AU Canadian Classification of Health Intervention/SNOMED CT Standard surgical and treatment procedures code master ICD-9-CM SNOMED CT, OPCS-4 SNOMED CT, ICD-10-PCS, HCPCS, CPT-4

Abbreviations: ATC, Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical; CCD, Canadian Clinical Drug; CPT, Current Procedural Terminology; DICOM, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine; dm+d, dictionary of medicines and devices; DSM-IV, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EDI, electronic data interchange; HCPCS, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System; ICD-10-AM, ICD-10-Australian Modification; ICD-10-PCS, ICD-10-Procedure Coding System; KD, Korea Drug; LOINC, Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes; NICIP, National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure; OPCS-4, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Interventions and Procedures-4; SNOMED CT - AU, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Term - Australia.

Ann Lab Med 2024;44:467~471 https://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2024.0105

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