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Medical Informatics Europe 1991 pp 770–774Cite as

The Read Codes and National and International Medical Data Interchange

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The Read Codes started back in 1982 when James Read, as a General Practitioner decided to write a simple coding system for recording his practice’s clinical data. Initially there were 25 codes! There are now some 100,000 codes with 150,000 synonyms covering all areas of medicine.

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  1. NHS Centre for Coding and Classification, Woodgate, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2TG, UK

    Dr James D Read (FRCGP, Director)

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  1. Department of Medical Computer Sciences, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Wien, Austria

    Klaus-Peter Adlassnig  & Georg Grabner  & 

  2. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Akademiska Hospital, P. O. Box 552, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden

    Stellan Bengtsson

  3. National Institute of Public Health, Geitmyrsveien 75, 0462, Oslo, Norway

    Rolf Hansen

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Read, J.D. (1991). The Read Codes and National and International Medical Data Interchange. In: Adlassnig, KP., Grabner, G., Bengtsson, S., Hansen, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 1991. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93503-9_138

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