ASTM E2522-07
Historical Standard: ASTM E2522-07 Standard Guide for Quality Indicators for Health Classification
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ASTM E2522
1. Scope
1.1 This international standard is intended to document principal ideas which are necessary and sufficient to assign value to a classification. The standard will serve as a guide for governments, funding agencies, terminology developers, terminology integration organizations, and the purchasers and users of classification systems toward improved terminological development and recognition of value in a classification. It is applicable to all areas of health about which information is kept or utilized. Appropriately, classifications should be evaluated within the context of their stated scope and purpose. It is intended to complement and utilize those notions already identified by other national and international standards bodies. This standard explicitly refers only to classifications. This international standard will also provide classification developers and authors with the quality guidelines needed to construct useful, maintainable classifications. These tenets do not attempt to specify all of the richness which can be incorporated into a classification. However, this standard does specify the minimal requirements, which if not adhered to will assure that the classification will have limited generalizability and will be very difficult if not impossible to maintain. We have used the word 'Shall' to indicate mandatory requirements and the word 'Should' to indicate those requirements which we feel are desirable but may not be widely achievable in current implementations. Classifications, which do not currently meet these criteria, can be in compliance with this standard by putting in place mechanisms to move toward these goals. This standard will provide classification developers with a sturdy starting point for the development of useful classifications. This foundation serves as the basis from which classification developers will build robust concept systems.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
ISO Standards
ISO 1087-2 Terminology--Vocabulary--Part 2: Computer Applications ISO 11179-3 Terminology--Data Registries ISO 12200 Terminology--Computer Applications--Machine Readable Terminology Interchange Format ISO 12620 Terminology--Computer Applications--Data Categories ISO 15188 Project Management for Terminology Standardization ISO 2382-4 Information Technology--Vocabulary--Part 4: Organization of Data ISO 704 Principles and Methods of Terminology ISO/DIS 860 International Harmonization of Concepts and Terms TR 9789 Guidelines for the Organization and Representation of Data Elements for Data Interchange--Coding Methods and PrinciplesASTM Standards
E1238 Specification for Transferring Clinical Observations Between Independent Computer Systems
E1239 Practice for Description of Reservation/Registration-Admission, Discharge, Transfer (R-ADT) Systems for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
E1284 Guide for Construction of a Clinical Nomenclature for Support of Electronic Health Records
E1384 Practice for Content and Structure of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
E1633 Specification for Coded Values Used in the Electronic Health Record
CEN Standards
ENV 12017 Medical Informatics--VocabularyICS Code
ICS Number Code 01.140.20 (Information sciences); 11.020 (Medical sciences and health care facilities in general)
DOI: 10.1520/E2522-07
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