Dear colleagues,
We would appreciate some assistance.
We are currently using some primary care clinical research databases.
In order to carry out analysis we have to manage groups (clusters) of clinical
terms to identify diseases, interventions, drugs etc.
The coding systems we are currently using are the Read 4 byte and 5 byte
and additional 2 byte term code.
We need to maintain libraries of these clusters to allow searching and reuse;
this has proved clumsy especially when we have to implement version control.
Does anyone have any experience, advice, guidance that they would be
prepared to share with us?
One of the problems for example in using Access is the confusion caused by
mixed case.
Thank you for your help
Louise
Louise Thornton
Higher Information Analyst
Prescribing support and Primary Care services
The NHS Information Centre for health and social care
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