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Coding
We’ll look at coding by considering a consultation with Mickey. Today Mickey has abdominal pain (everybody say “Aw”). We will enter this diagnosis by typing P for problem in consultation mode, which brings up the following screen:
You’ll see that there is a list of past problems, which could be selected if relevant by entering the appropriate letter. If I knew the Read Code for abdominal pain I could enter it directly. However as I don’t I will find it by entering ‘Abd pain’ ( typically enter at least three letters of each word you want to search for). This brings up a choice of possible matches.
I select A for abdominal pain, which brings up two further choices:
Again I select A for abdominal pain, which takes us to the next screen.