HL7 Terminology (THO)
3.0.0 - Publication
This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v3.0.0: 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"><h3>Summary</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td>Defining URL</td><td>http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/v3-UnitOfMeasurePrefix</td></tr><tr><td>Name</td><td>UnitOfMeasurePrefix</td></tr><tr><td>Status</td><td>retired</td></tr><tr><td>Definition</td><td><div><p>Decimal multipliers for units of measure</p>
<p><strong>Deprecation Comment:</strong> This code system was created in error. Implementations should use the code system UCUM with OID 2.16.840.1.113883.6.8</p>
<p>Note that due to some tooling issues, some of the synonym codes that differed only in case (upper/lower) were not being assembled into MIF correctly, therefore they have been removed as a workaround for these tooling issues. This should have limited effect as this system has been deprecated for 8 years, and retired for 4 years, and will be removed soon.</p>
</div></td></tr></table><h3>Identifiers</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td><b>Type</b></td><td><b>Value</b></td><td><b>Preferred</b></td></tr><tr><td>OID</td><td>2.16.840.1.113883.5.1072</td><td>true</td></tr><tr><td>URI</td><td>http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-UnitOfMeasurePrefix</td><td>true</td></tr></table></div>
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**Deprecation Comment:** This code system was created in error. Implementations should use the code system UCUM with OID 2.16.840.1.113883.6.8
Note that due to some tooling issues, some of the synonym codes that differed only in case (upper/lower) were not being assembled into MIF correctly, therefore they have been removed as a workaround for these tooling issues. This should have limited effect as this system has been deprecated for 8 years, and retired for 4 years, and will be removed soon."/>
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