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What are the Read Codes?
1Centre for Coding and Classification, Loughborough, England.
Health Libraries Review
|August 6, 1994
Abstract:
The Read Codes were initially developed by a general practitioner, Dr James Read from Loughborough, in the early 1980s and rapidly gained acceptance by general practitioners as a popular and useful mechanism for storing structured information about patients in individual, patient-based records, which were beginning to become popular in a few general practices at the time. This short article aims to explain the past and future development of the coding system in the National Health Service as a whole.