Homoeopathy is one of the established 'complernentay' therapies that are now a fact of life in the UK health care system. Although much remains to be done by way of controlled trials to establish their efficac...
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The Read Codes were initially developed by a general practitioner, Dr James Read from Loughborough, in the early 1980s and rapidly gained acceptance by general practitioners as a popular and useful mechanism for stori...
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The Read Codes were initially developed by a general practitioner, Dr James Read from Loughborough, in the early 1980s and rapidly gained acceptance by general practitioners as a popular and useful mechanism for storing structured information about patients in individual, patient-based records, which were beginning to become popular in a few general practices at the time. This short article aims to explain the past and future development of the coding system in the National Health Service as a whole.
Good information is a fundamental requirement of good patient care. Computer information systems are increasingly becoming the medium for recording, communicating and analysing information throughout the National Heal...
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The creation of the Read Thesaurus was a unique undertaking, involving over 2000 clinicians. This clinically-led, multidisciplinary enterprise posed many organisational and professional challenges. The process of term...
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A cornerstone of the National Health Services (NHS) Executive's Information and Technology strategy is fully operational, person-based clinical information systems, from which flow all of the data needed for direc...
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Orienting new clinical coders to the hospital's case mix should be a basic function of the organisation's coding Service. After much trial and error, Southern Health coding and Casemix Services has devised an ...
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Orienting new clinical coders to the hospital's case mix should be a basic function of the organisation's coding Service. After much trial and error, Southern Health coding and Casemix Services has devised an orientation program that brings together, in a structured and logical manner, all the elements a coder needs to know. This article describes the current coding orientation program.
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