Procedure coding in anaesthesia.
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I C Banks
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A standard set of terms for critical incident recording?
The Anaesthetic Specialty Working Group of the Clinical Terms Project has been creating clinical terms for inclusion in the Read clinical classification. It is the intention to include terms to describe critical incidents. Many difficulties were encountered and these are discussed. The current definitions of a critical incident in the anaesthetic literature are too wide to allow a circumscribed set of terms to be generated. The interpretation of a critical incident is not only subjective but also requires a great deal of contextual information to describe it accurately. A method of critical incident reporting using the terms that will be contained within the enhanced Read clinical classification is proposed. These terms may be useful in the construction of a nationwide critical incident register.
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The application of Read Codes to anaesthesia.
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.
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