HL7 Terminology
2.1.0 - Publication
This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v2.1.0: Release) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 5.2.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><p>This code system http://unitsofmeasure.org defines many codes, but they are not represented here</p></div>
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<name value="UCUM"/>
<title value="Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM)"/>
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<date value="2020-11-03"/>
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value="LOINC and Health Data Standards, Regenstrief Institute, Inc."/>
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<name value="LOINC and Health Data Standards, Regenstrief Institute, Inc."/>
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value="The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business. The purpose is to facilitate unambiguous electronic communication of quantities together with their units. The focus is on electronic communication, as opposed to communication between humans. A typical application of The Unified Code for Units of Measure are electronic data interchange (EDI) protocols, but there is nothing that prevents it from being used in other types of machine communication."/>
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value="The UCUM codes, UCUM table (regardless of format), and UCUM Specification are copyright 1999-2009, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the Unified Codes for Units of Measures (UCUM) Organization. All rights reserved. https://ucum.org/trac/wiki/TermsOfUse"/>
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