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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2012 Jan 21;45(4):667–673. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.01.005

Table 5.

LOINC translations available in RELMA 5.3 (June 2011)

Linguistic Variant Producera Searchable in RELMAb Terms Translated Parts Translatedc Synonyms Translated
Chinese (CHINA) Bethune International Peace Hospital Yes 48,422 20,417 90,546
Estonian (ESTONIA) Estonian E-Health Foundation Yes 44,005 11,992 1,036
French (CANADA) Canada Health Infoway Inc. Yes 39,551 8,903 10
French (FRANCE) Société Française d’Informatique de Laboratoires 4,408
French (SWITZERLAND) CUMUL, Switzerland 4,940
German (GERMANY) Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) Yes 11,059
German (SWITZERLAND) CUMUL, Switzerland 4,941
Greek (GREECE) Efstratia Kontaxi, MD, MSc; Evripidis Stefanidis, MD; and Panagiotis Kontaxis 2,094 307 38
Italian (ITALY) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Yes 43,989 11,748 6,268
Italian (SWITZERLAND) CUMUL, Switzerland 4,939
Korean (KOREA, REPUBLIC OF) Korean Ministry for Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs Yes 26,893
Portuguese (BRAZIL) -- Draft Brazilian Federal Agency for Health Plans and Insurance; Brazilian Clinical Analysis Society; Brazilian Clinical Pathology Society and Diagnóstico das Américas (DASA) 2,780
Spanish (ARGENTINA) Conceptum Medical Terminology Center Yes 38,308
Spanish (SPAIN) Clinical Laboratory Committee of Servicio Extremeño de Salud, with the support of BITAC MAP Yes 44,352 12,071 10,283
Spanish (SWITZERLAND) CUMUL, Switzerland 4,940
a

Additional details are available at http://loinc.org/international.

b

Per Regenstrief policy, only translations of sufficient size (e.g. >10,000 terms) are enabled for searching in RELMA.

c

Translations generated from our Parts-based method have values in this column. Translations developed at the whole term level have null entries in this column.