8.3 LOINC Scale for collections
Where the Scale for individual elements in a panel vary, the name of the panel term itself will be a dash (-). The Scale for general information collections will be Doc, short for document, which is used in the most general sense of a text document, image, scanned text image, etc. We are in the process of reviewing our current use of Nar (narrative) or Nom (nominal) for general information collections in some portions of the LOINC database and migrating towards broader use of Doc. We have already made such changes in some areas, for example Radiology and Molecular Pathology.