ASTM_E_2522_-_07_2013.pdf

Designation:E252207(Reapproved 2013)Standard Guide forQuality Indicators for Health Classifications1This standard is issued under the fixed designation E2522;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.1.Scope1.1 This international standard is intended to documentprincipal ideas which are necessary and sufficient to assignvalue to a classification.The standard will serve as a guide forgovernments,funding agencies,terminology developers,ter-minology integration organizations,and the purchasers andusers of classification systems toward improved terminologicaldevelopment and recognition of value in a classification.It isapplicable to all areas of health about which information is keptor utilized.Appropriately,classifications should be evaluatedwithin the context of their stated scope and purpose.It isintended to complement and utilize those notions alreadyidentified by other national and international standards bodies.This standard explicitly refers only to classifications.Thisinternational standard will also provide classification develop-ers and authors with the quality guidelines needed to constructuseful,maintainable classifications.These tenets do not at-tempt to specify all of the richness which can be incorporatedinto a classification.However,this standard does specify theminimal requirements,which if not adhered to will assure thatthe classification will have limited generalizability and will bevery difficult if not impossible to maintain.We have used theword“Shall”to indicate mandatory requirements and the word“Should”to indicate those requirements which we feel aredesirable but may not be widely achievable in current imple-mentations.Classifications,which do not currently meet thesecriteria,can be in compliance with this standard by putting inplace mechanisms to move toward these goals.This standardwill provide classification developers with a sturdy startingpoint for the development of useful classifications.This foun-dation serves as the basis from which classification developerswill build robust concept systems.2.Referenced Documents2.1 Normative ReferencesThe following normative docu-ments contain provisions,which through reference in this text,constitute provisions of this Guide E2522.For datedreferences,subsequent amendments to,or revisions of,any ofthese publications do not apply.However,parties to agree-ments based on Guide E2522 are encouraged to investigate thepossibility of applying the most recent editions of the norma-tive documents indicated below.For undated references,thelatest edition of the normative document referred to applies.Members of ISO and IEC maintain registers of currently validInternational Standards.2.2 ASTM Standards:2E1238 Specification for Transferring Clinical ObservationsBetween Independent Computer Systems(Withdrawn2002)3E1239 Practice for Description of Reservation/Registration-Admission,Discharge,Transfer(R-ADT)Systems forElectronic Health Record(EHR)SystemsE1284 Guide for Construction of a Clinical Nomenclaturefor Support of Electronic Health Records(Withdrawn2007)3E1384 Practice for Content and Structure of the ElectronicHealth Record(EHR)E1633 Specification for Coded Values Used in the ElectronicHealth Record2.3 ISO Standards:4ISO 704 Principles and Methods of TerminologyISO/DIS 860 International Harmonization of Concepts andTermsISO 1087-2 TerminologyVocabularyPart 2:ComputerApplicationsISO 11179-3 TerminologyData RegistriesISO12200 TerminologyComputerApplicationsMachine Readable Terminology Interchange FormatISO 12620 TerminologyComputer ApplicationsDataCategoriesISO 15188 Project Management for Terminology Standard-ization1This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E31 on HealthcareInformatics and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E31.35 on HealthcareData Analysis.Current edition approved March 1,2013.Published March 2013.Originallyapproved in 2007.Last previous edition approved in 2007 as E252207.DOI:10.1520/E2522-07R13.2For referenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume information,refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website.3The last approved version of this historical standard is referenced onwww.astm.org.4Available from American National Standards Institute(ANSI),25 W.43rd St.,4th Floor,New York,NY 10036,http:/www.ansi.org.Copyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959.United States1 ISO 2382-4 Information TechnologyVocabularyPart 4:Organization of DataTR 9789 Guidelines for the Organization and Representationof Data Elements for Data InterchangeCoding Methodsand Principles2.4 CEN Standards:5ENV 12017 Medical Infor