The international standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents.

Prefix

loinc

Alternative Prefixes

LNC

Keywords

assay biomedical science diagnosis genetic disorder genetic polymorphism life science ontology phenotype preclinical studies

License

https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/assets/LicenseAgreement.pdf

Links

Homepage

Contact

LOINC Support

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes should match this regular expression:
^(\d|\w)+-\d$

Example Local Unique Identifier

LL379-9   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes should match this regular expression:
^loinc:(\d|\w)+-\d$

Example CURIE

loinc:LL379-9

Publications

• 1998 Combining laboratory data sets from multiple institutions using the logical observation identifier names and codes (LOINC)
• 2015 Supporting interoperability of genetic data with LOINC
• 2012 Enabling international adoption of LOINC through translation

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

FHIR External Terminologies

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://loinc.org/rdf/$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier LL379-9 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.