title: [The JLAC Coding System for Clinical Laboratory Tests].
abstract: Clinical laboratory data are essential for the diagnosis of and therapy for patients in hospital. In addition to such direct clinical use in hospitals, the collected personal clinical laboratory data have been recognized as very important for the life-long health care of individual patients. Furthermore, the data derived from a large number of patients are utilized for epidemiological studies and safety evaluation of new drugs. For the above-mentioned secondary use, laboratory data which are obtained at different times and in different facilities must be comparable. Recently, a huge amount of medical information has been accumulated and utilized as "big data" for the development of national healthcare and life science industries. Under these circumstances, the JLAC, a coding system of laboratory tests developed and maintained by JSLM, is attracting increasing attention for the spatial and temporal comparison of laboratory test data.
authors.forename: Dongchon
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kang
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan