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Clinical coding. Code breakers.

The Health service journal, 2005
--The advent of payment by results has seen the role of the clinical coder pushed to the fore in England. --Examinations for a clinical coding qualification began in 1999. In 2004, approximately 200 people took the qualification. --Trusts are attracting people to the role by offering training from scratch or through modern apprenticeships.
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The increasing importance of clinical coding

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2008
Clinical coding is the process of transforming information about diseases or procedures into a numeric or alphanumeric format. Assigning a code for a specific diagnosis or procedure provides a way of standardizing the recording of clinical information.
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Code of practice for clinical proton dosimetry

Radiotherapy and Oncology, 1991
The objective of this document is to make recommendations for the determination of absorbed dose to tissue for clinical proton beams and to achieve uniformity in proton dosimetry. A Code of Practice has been chosen, providing specific guidelines for the choice of the detector and the method of determination of absorbed dose for proton beams only.
S, Vynckier, D E, Bonnett, D T, Jones
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Clinical Applications of Transcranial Color‐Coded Duplex Sonography

Journal of Neuroimaging, 2004
ABSTRACTTranscranial color‐coded duplex sonography (TCCS), in contrast to “blind” conventional transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD), enables a sonographer to outline the intracranial bony and parenchymal structures, visualize the basal cerebral arteries in color, and measure angle‐corrected blood flow velocities in a specific site of the artery in ...
Krejza, Jarosław, Baumgartner, Ralf
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ACNP Clinical Conference Session Codes

The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 2011
The American College of Nurse Practitioner's National Clinical Conference was held October 20-24, 2010, in Tampa. Information presented at the different sessions led to consideration of the following appropriate International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes that would apply for the conditions discussed in the sessions.
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Improving clinical coding in otorhinolaryngology

British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2014
In the English NHS Payment by Results system, clinical coding of a surgical operation results in one of a range of healthcare resource groups (HRG), each of which has a specific payment national tariff that the hospital receives for each spell of care.
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Coding for clinical trials.

The Journal of oncology management : the official journal of the American College of Oncology Administrators, 2005
Although CMS reimburses for routine care associated with clinical trials, it is essential that the correct diagnosis code, modifier, and, where necessary, HCPCS Level II procedure code be assigned to accurately report these qualifying trial services. Remember that not all insurance payors will provide reimbursement for services rendered as part of a ...
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Medical Coding in Clinical Trials

Research Journal of Science and Technology
Investigators situated at numerous sites in various countries record data collected in every clinical study on the data collecting tool Case report Form/Electronic Case Report Form. Since different investigators or medically competent specialists are from several sites or centers, it might be difficult to record medical terms consistently in ...
Hemlata J. Pawar, Ashwini R. Tamkhane, Paresh A. Patil   +2 more
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Circulating Noncoding RNAs as Clinical Biomarkers

2016
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are frequently dysregulated in cancer and other diseases and have shown great potential as tissue-based markers for cancer classification and prognostication. ncRNAs are present in membrane-bound vesicles, such as exosomes, in extracellular human body fluids.
Russo F, Scoyni F, Fatica A, Pellegrini M, FERRO, Alfredo, PULVIRENTI, ALFREDO, Giugno R.   +6 more
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Code of Professional Conduct for Clinical Embryologists

Human Fertility, 2004
The Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE) is the professional body of and for clinical embryologists practising in the UK. ACE was founded in 1993 to promote high standards of practice in clinical embryology and to support the professional interests of embryologists. ACE presently has in excess of 400 members.
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