ASTM E2522-07(2013)
Standard Guide for Quality Indicators for Health Classifications

Standard No.

ASTM E2522-07(2013)

Release Date

2007

Published By

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Latest

ASTM E2522-07(2013)

Scope

1.1 This international standard is intended to document principal ideas which are necessary and sufficient to assign value to a classification. The standard will serve as a guide for governments, funding agencies, terminology developers, terminology integration organizations, and the purchasers and users of classification systems toward improved terminological development and recognition of value in a classification. It is applicable to all areas of health about which information is kept or utilized. Appropriately, classifications should be evaluated within the context of their stated scope and purpose. It is intended to complement and utilize those notions already identified by other national and international standards bodies. This standard explicitly refers only to classifications. This international standard will also provide classification developers and authors with the quality guidelines needed to construct useful, maintainable classifications. These tenets do not attempt to specify all of the richness which can be incorporated into a classification. However, this standard does specify the minimal requirements, which if not adhered to will assure that the classification will have limited generalizability and will be very difficult if not impossible to maintain. We have used the word “Shall” to indicate mandatory requirements and the word “Should” to indicate those requirements which we feel are desirable but may not be widely achievable in current implementations. Classifications, which do not currently meet these criteria, can be in compliance with this standard by putting in place mechanisms to move toward these goals. This standard will provide classification developers with a sturdy starting point for the development of useful classifications. This foundation serves as the basis from which classification developers will build robust concept systems.

ASTM E2522-07(2013) Referenced Document

• ASTM E1238 Standard Specification for Transferring Clinical Observations Between Independent Computer Systems
• ASTM E1239 Standard Practice for Description of Reservation/Registration-Admission, Discharge, Transfer (R-ADT) Systems for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
• ASTM E1284 
• ASTM E1384 Standard Guide for Content and Structure of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• ASTM E1633 Standard Specification for Coded Values Used in the Electronic Health Record*， 2024-04-20 Update
• ISO 1087-2 Terminology work - Vocabulary - Part 2: Computer applications
• ISO 12200 Computer applications in terminology - Machine-readable terminology interchange format (MARTIF) - Negotiated interchange
• ISO 12620 Management of terminology resources — Data category specifications
• ISO 15188 Project management guidelines for terminology standardization
• ISO 2382-4 Information processing systems; Vocabulary; Part 04: Organization of data Bilingual edition
• ISO 704 Terminology work — Principles and methods

ASTM E2522-07(2013) history

• 2007 ASTM E2522-07(2013) Standard Guide for Quality Indicators for Health Classifications
• 2007 ASTM E2522-07 Standard Guide for Quality Indicators for Health Classification