Visual acuity best corrected Left eye by Snellen eye chart   79881-9

LOINC Code


LOINC code79881-9
nameVisual acuity best corrected Left eye by Snellen eye chart
descriptionThis term was developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Health's National Eye Institute (NEI) as part of an effort to standardize the data elements collected by the National Ophthalmic Disease Genotyping and Phenotyping Network (eyeGENE).
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentVisual acuity^best corrected
propertyLenRto  =  Length Ratio
timePt  =  Point in time:  To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
systemEye.left
scaleQn  =  Quantitative:  The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256
methodSnellen eye chart

Additional Names

short nameL eye VA--corr Snellen

Basic Attributes

classEYE.REFRACTION.NEI
type2  Clinical
order vs. observationObservation
example UCUM units[ft_us]/[ft_us]
The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business (www.unitsofmeasure.org)
example unitft/ft

Associated Observations

LOINC codes that represent optional associated observation(s) for a clinical observation or laboratory test. A LOINC term may represent a single associated observation or panel containing several associated observations.

History/Usage

test rank10200 of 2000 most commonly performed tests by labs in USA
first released
last updated2.73
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name

Related Names

Eye
EYE.REFRACTION
EYE.REFRACTION.NEI
Eyeball
L
L eye
Length Ratio
LT
Occular
Oculis
Ophthalmologic
Ophthalmology
Ophtho
Ophthy
Optic globe
Point in time
QNT
Quan
Quant
Quantitative
Random
Refraction
VA
Vision
Visual

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