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International LOINC Downloads

International interest in LOINC® continues to grow. A number of efforts have been undertaken to translate the LOINC documents and terms into various languages. The LOINC database and the RELMA program provide language translations as Linguistic Variants.

If you are interested in assisting with translations, please contact us

LOINC downloads in other languages

German

Translation into German on behalf of the DIMDI through: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg; Erlangen. Caroline Heubeck, Dr. Immo Fiebrig, Dr. Manfred Criegee-Rieck.

German LOINC User's Group Website

Simplified Chinese

Translation by Lin Zhang at Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, People's Republic of China with support from Professor Xing Chen, Director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and technical support from Yingjie Zhao. Translations of LOINC codes are provided in the database as a linguistic variant.

LOINC User's Guide (December 2007) in Simplified Chinese
RELMA User's Guide (December 2007) in Simplified Chinese
Laboratory LOINC and RELMA tutorial (June 2008)
Jim Case & Clem McDonald & Daniel Vreeman

Spanish

Spanish translations of the laboratory LOINC terms by Guillermo Reynoso from the International Medical Terminology Research Center in Argentina are provided in the LOINC database as a linguistic variant.

The Mexican Institute of Social Security (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, or IMSS) has produced a website that produces English or Spanish translations.