The ICPC coding system in pharmacy: developing a subset, ICPC-Ph.
The ICPC system is a coding system developed for general medical practice, to be able to code the GP-patient encounters and other actions. Some of the codes can be easily used by community pharmacists to code complaints and diseases in pharmaceutical care practice. We developed a subset of the ICPC codes for community pharmacists. This article describes the method used and the resulting ICPC-Ph list.
van Mil
J W
JW
Working Group Social Pharmacy, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands.
Brenninkmeijer
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Tromp
T F
TF
D006801:Humans; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services; D011320:Primary Health Care