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. 2009 May-Jun;16(3):400–403. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M2882

Table 3.

Table 3 Availability of LOINC Codes for HIS Documents. For 93.1% of Documents a LOINC Code was Identified. In 22.5% of Cases a Mapping was Possible, But a More Specific LOINC Code was Deemed Necessary

Number of Documents (%)
Analysis dataset 1,243,325 100.0
No LOINC code available 86,038 6.9
LOINC mapping possible, but more specific code necessary 279,233 22.5
LOINC code available 878,054 70.6

HIS = hospital information systems; LOINC = logical observation identifiers names and codes.