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The application of Read Codes to anaesthesia
Author(s) -
BANKS I. C.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1994.tb14185.x
Subject(s) - medicine , set (abstract data type) , specialty , field (mathematics) , anesthesia , service (business) , computer science , programming language , family medicine , mathematics , economy , pure mathematics , economics
Summary The Anaesthetic Specialty Working Group of the Clinical Terms Project is creating a set of terms for anaesthesia. These terms can be used to describe the activities of an anaesthetist, and are designed for use in computerised systems such as automated anaesthetic record‐keeping systems. These terms will be coded as Read Codes, and will be introduced to the National Health Service in 1994. The method for, and the reasoning behind the creation of these terms, is discussed below. The way that these terms can be used in the field of anaesthesia is outlined.