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. 1998 Mar-Apr;5(2):203–213. doi: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050203

Table 1.

Lexical Determination of the Measured Components or Analytes of LOINC and SNOMED Concepts

LOINC
SNOMED
Totals
SNOMED Section Concepts (n) SNOMED Analyte Determined (n) Concepts (n) SNOMED Analyte Suggested (n) SNOMED Analyte Determined (n) Concepts (n) SNOMED Analyte Determined (n, %)
P3-1 Coagulation 211 184 118 247 89 329 273 (83)
P3-2 Blood bank 540 480 131 370 78 671 558 (83)
P3-3 Hematology 359 293 95 312 59 454 352 (78)
P3-4 Anatomic path 1 0 232 274 27 233 27 (12)
P3-5 Microbiology 636 476 300 251 74 936 550 (59)
P3-6 Immunology 2901 1491 429 877 234 3330 1725 (52)
P3-7 Chemistry 3045 2747 681 1441 577 3726 3324 (89)
P3-9 Urine & semen 70 53 43 76 13 113 66 (58)
P3-A Food analysis 0
0
21
4
0
21
0 (00)
Totals
7763
5724
2050
3852
1151
9813
6875 (70)
Note: LOINC concepts have been merged into SNOMED sections based on the class of each LOINC concept.