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 developing a LOINC translation, please review the terms-of-use and contact us

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.

• LOINC User's Guide (January 2009) in German
• DIMDI LOINC Companion Site

• 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.

• RELMA program with Simplified Chinese index
  
• 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.

• RELMA program with Spanish word index
• IMSS User's Guide (Manual de Usuario) to Web version of RELMA - 08-26-2004
  
• LOINC User's Guide (February 2004) in Spanish
• IMSS Website with LOINC English/Spanish translations

Estonian

Translation into Estonian from Estonian LOINC working group of the Estonian Society for Clinical Chemistry, performed by Alar Aab from Department of Clinical Chemistry, United Laboratories, Clinicum of the University of Tartu and Kärt Tomberg. This work was partially supported by Estonian E-Health Foundation.

• LOINC User's Guide (July 2008) in Estonian
  
• Laboratory LOINC and RELMA tutorial (December 2007)
  Jim Case & Clem McDonald & Daniel Vreeman