| Entity Name | Entity Definition | Entity Other Definition | Comments/ URL |
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| City | A City is an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village. | | http://www.merriam-webster.com |
| Country | A Country is a political state or nation or its territory. | | http://www.merriam-webster.com |
| Currency | Currency is something (as coins, treasury notes, and banknotes) that is in circulation as a medium of exchange; paper money in circulation. | | http://www.merriam-webster.com |
| HCPCS Level II | HCPCS Level II is a standard code set system for Medicare and other health insurance programs to ensure that health care claims are processed in an orderly and consistent manner. | HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) Level I is comprised of CPT (Current Procedural Terminology), a numeric coding system maintained by the American Medical Association (AMA). HCPCS Level II identifies products, supplies, and services not included in the CPT codes. HCPCS Level II is maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). | http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedHCPCSGenInfo/ |
| ICD-10-PCS | ICD-10-PCS is a coding system designed to promote international comparability in the collection, processing, classification, and presentation of mortality statistics. | ICD-10-PCS (The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Procedure Coding System) is being developed as a replacement for ICD-9-CM, Volume 3. ICD-10-PCS is maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). | http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/icd10des.htm
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ICD10/02_ICD-10-PCS.asp#TopOfPage |
| ICD-9-CM | ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States. | ICD-9-CM is based on the World Health Organization's Ninth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9). ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are responsible for overseeing all changes and modifications to ICD-9-CM. Note that ICD-10-PCS is the proposed new procedure coding system that is being developed as a replacement for ICD-9-CM, Volume 3. | http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/01_overview.asp |
| Language | A Language is defined as words, their pronunciations, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community. | | http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary |
| LOINC | LOINC is a set of universal codes and names to identify laboratory and other clinical observations. | LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) facilitates the exchange and pooling of clinical results for clinical care, outcomes management, and research by providing a set of universal codes and names to identify laboratory and other clinical observations. The Regenstrief Institute, Inc, an internationally renowned healthcare and informatics research organization, maintains the LOINC database and supporting documentation. | http://loinc.org/ |
| MedDRA | The Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) MedDRA is a medically valid terminology with an emphasis on ease of use for data entry, retrieval, analysis, and display. | MedDRA is a pragmatic, medically valid terminology with an emphasis on ease of use for data entry, retrieval, analysis, and display, as well as a suitable balance between sensitivity and specificity within the regulatory environment. | http://www.meddramsso.com/MSSOWeb/index.htm |
| MetaData | Common information found on CDH.com. | Common Attributes, Entities, and Acronyms used on CDH | |
| NAICS Industry Codes | NAICS Industry Codes are standards for classifying business establishments for the collection, analysis, and publication of statistical data related to the business economy of the U.S. | The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) was developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America. NAICS was developed under the auspices of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and adopted in 1997 to replace the old Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. | http://www.naics.com/index.html |
| NDC | An NDC Code is a unique, three-segment numbers used to identify and report Drug products by the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration). | FDA inputs the full NDC (National Drug Code) number and the information submitted as part of the listing process into a database known as the Drug Registration and Listing System (DRLS). Several times a year, FDA extracts some of the information from the DRLS data base (currently, properly listed marketed prescription drug products and insulin) and publishes that information in the NDC Directory. | http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/ |
| SIC Codes | Standard Industrial Classification Codes | | |
| State | A State is one of the constituent units of a nation having a federal government. | | http://www.merriam-webster.com |
| Generated by CommonDataHub on 30-Oct-2008 |
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