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. 2005 May-Jun;12(3):357–363. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1689

Table 2.

LOINC Codes Requested to Store Donor Data in the Information Model

Component System Sample of Values Suggested Short Name
Organ donor ID number DONOR Donor identification number
Subject of observation PATIENT Organ donor, mother, newborn, sibling, household contact, sexual contact Subject
Organ donor PATIENT Cadaveric donor, living donor Organ donor

Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) already existed for “Donor relation to patient.” The answer list for this code included terms such as “self,” “mother,” ”father,” “sibling 1,” “grandmother,” “nonrelative,” and so forth.