75609-8

LOINC code 75609-8 identifies "Birth defects Outpatient Registry report". Birth defect reporting may include congenital or structural malformation, or a biochemical or genetic disease, or any information relevant to incidents of birth defects. This term was created for, but not limited in use to, the Implementation Guide for Ambulatory Healthcare Provider Reporting to Central Birth Defect Registries, HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). Major document sections for this guide include: 1) Birth defects diagnosis, 2) Coded results (relevant patient diagnosis procedures), 3) Payers section, 4) Cytogenetics section, 5) Labor and delivery history and physical, 6) Labor and delivery events, 7) Newborn delivery, 8) Care plan, and 9) the (patient) Disposition section.

This code measures Registry report in Outpatient. It belongs to the DOC.ONTOLOGY class in the LOINC classification.

LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) is a universal standard for identifying laboratory and clinical observations. It is maintained by the Regenstrief Institute and used worldwide for health data exchange.