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Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD) -- all codes Value set

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Statusdraft · 1.26.0
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The Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD) -- the pan-Canadian terminology for identifying and naming medications and some medical devices, designed to reflect current clinical practice and safety advice.

It codes drugs at the INGREDIENT level, which is the level at which every cross-record question is actually asked: same-drug detection, duplicate therapy, and matching a medication against a recorded allergy. This specification prefers it over ATC where a source has it, and prefers either over a DIN, which identifies a marketed product rather than a drug. Pinned on the ccdd slice of MedicationRequest, MedicationStatement, MedicationDispense and AllergyIntolerance.

Published by Health Canada; the FHIR representation is developed and served by Canada Health Infoway, which also takes content-change requests (clinicaldrug@infoway-inforoute.ca). CCDD is freely available for use in digital health solutions, in English and Canadian French; no licence fee gates it. The FHIR representation is browsable through Infoway's terminology service at https://terminologystandardsservice.ca/fhir.

The canonical URI is http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/hc-CCDD, published through HL7 Terminology (THO). An earlier Infoway-hosted URI (https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/CodeSystem/canadianclinicaldrugdataset) is maintained upstream for backward compatibility; this specification pins the THO form, which is the one THO records as official going forward.

The set enumerates no codes of its own. It includes the whole system, so it means every code in it, and it exists so the system URI resolves to a definition rather than to nothing. The definition itself stays with the publisher at the canonical above: this specification does not redefine the system and does not restrict it. Where this page shows a list of codes, that list is a SAMPLE reproduced under the publisher's own terms and is not the set's content -- the page says how many of how many it is showing.

Codes from http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/hc-CCDD

All codes from this system.

Codes are not reproduced here

The Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set is freely available for use, but redistributing its content is a separate permission that this specification does not claim. No codes are enumerated here; obtain the set from Canada Health Infoway (https://terminologystandardsservice.ca/fhir).