Description

Completion Guidance

• Documentation can include a rich text description of the dataset or links to media such as documents, images, presentations, videos or links to data dictionaries, profiles or dashboards.

• Organisations are required to confirm that they have permission to distribute any additional media.

Mappings

The table below shows the element mappings between the Exchange data model, the Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) Information Standard Notice (ISN) and the Interoperability Standards Team Guide.

The Description element gives an editor the opportunity to input more detail than the Abstract in the Summary section, so the complete Description from the ISN and relevant data from other documents in the published standard can be entered here.

Example

ISN element

A new standard to define the information needed to support a person's diabetes management, including self-management, across care settings. • The Diabetes Record Information Standard defines the information needed to support a person’s diabetes management. It includes information that could be recorded by health and care professionals or the person themselves that is relevant to the diabetes care of the person and should be shared between different care providers. • The Diabetes Self-Management Information Standard defines the information that could be recorded by the person themselves (or their carer) at home (either using digital apps or medical technology, e.g. continuous glucose monitors or insulin pumps) and shared with health and care professionals. (This is a subset of the Diabetes Record Information Standard for a specific use case.)

IOPS guide

Pathology comprises a wide range of specialities. The key specialities can be grouped as follows:

• blood sciences – this includes clinical biochemistry (also known as chemical pathology), haematology, immunology and transfusion medicine

• microbiology – this includes bacteriology, virology and serology

• cellular pathology – this includes cytology and histopathology

• genetics – this includes clinical cytogenetics and molecular genetics

Most pathology tests are performed by pathology laboratories. These include hospital-based laboratories and specialist reference laboratories (which are often based regionally or nationally). Note: the terms 'pathology laboratory' and 'laboratory' are used interchangeably throughout this specification.

An increasing number of pathology tests are performed outside of laboratories. These include tests that that may be performed at a point of care (usually by a Health Care Professional in a care setting such as a GP practice or in a hospital ward) or by a patient or their carer at home. Note: the current focus of this specification is on laboratory-based tests rather than those undertaken at point of care.

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