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LOINC Code 77965-2: Immediate national notifiable condition

77965-2 is a LOINC code used to identify Immediate national notifiable condition in laboratory and clinical observation data. You may see this code in lab systems, lab reports, EHR exports, interoperability feeds, or other structured clinical data exchanges. LOINC codes identify tests, measurements, observations, survey items, and clinical questions in a standardized way. It is associated with the component Immediate national notifiable condition. It is commonly used with the system or sample type ^Event.

Reviewed by HealthAssure Clinical TeamUpdated 21 May 2026

What is this code?

LOINC codes identify tests, measurements, observations, survey items, and clinical questions in a standardized way. It is associated with the component Immediate national notifiable condition. It is commonly used with the system or sample type ^Event.

When is it used?

  • Used in lab systems, EHRs, and clinical data exchange.
  • May identify a test, observation, survey item, or clinical document request rather than a diagnosis.
  • Status: ACTIVE
  • Order vs observation: Observation

What it does not mean

  • The code identifies the observation or test, not the actual result.

Key facts

Immediate national notifiable condition
Indicates if a case meets the criteria for immediate (extremely urgent or urgent) notification to a reporting center. This term was created for, but not limited in use to, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Generic Individual Case Notification Message Mapping Guide for HL7 V2 messaging. To determine if the cases meets the requirements for notification, the guide currently (2015) refers to the 2013 list of NNC by type of notification category (extremely urgent, urgent, and standard) at the following linkhttp://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/document/NNC_2013_Notification_Requirements_By_Category.pdf
Finding; Findings; Immed Nat Notifiable Cond; Ordinal; Point in time; QL; Qual; Qualitative; Random; Screen; Survey; SURVEY.CDC

Where you may see this code

You may see this code in lab systems, lab reports, EHR exports, interoperability feeds, or other structured clinical data exchanges.

Common synonyms

Immediate national notifiable conditionSURVEY.CDCFindPt^EventOrdFinding

Frequently asked questions

Code details

Code77965-2
SystemLOINC
Display nameImmediate national notifiable condition
ComponentImmediate national notifiable condition
PropertyFind
TimingPt
System (specimen)^Event
ScaleOrd
ClassSURVEY.CDC
StatusACTIVE
Order/ObservationObservation

Flags

BillableNo
Valid clinical useNo

Source

SourceLOINC
Version2.82
Releasemain
First released2.52
Last changed2.52

Part names

Immediate national notifiable conditionFindPt^EventOrdFindingPoint in time (spot)

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