Randomised crossover trial comparing the performance of Clinical Terms Version 3 and Read Codes 5 byte set coding schemes in general practice

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7399, 2003, Pages 1127-1130

  Brown, Philip J B ^a,b   Warmington, Victoria ^b   Laurence, Michael ^c   Prevost, A Toby ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Humbleyard Practice   (United Kingdom)

^c Bacon Road Medical Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TERMS VERSION 3; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NORFOLK ISLAND; PATIENT CODING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READ CODES 5 BYTE SET;

ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBURBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0038662736     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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