Beginning with version 1.0, the LOINC database was expanded to include order sets/panels. We use the word “panel” to mean collector terms that contain links to an enumerated set of discrete child elements. Across domains, this generic concept of a collection might be called a battery, form, data set, etc. The same general panel structure in LOINC is used to represent all of these kinds of collections.
Panels encompass many domains of content, including:
- Laboratory panels
- Clinical Assessments, Scales, and Measures
- Clinical Documents and Summary panels
- Diagnostic studies (non-lab) panels
- US Government panels (including the CMS LT-PAC instruments MDS, IRF-PAI, LCDS, and OASIS)
- Survey Instruments
For specific information regarding the PanelsAndForms.csv file, see the dedicated documentation for this accessory file.
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