Abstract
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.
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van Mil, J., Brenninkmeijer, R. & Tromp, T. The ICPC coding system in pharmacy: developing a subset. ICPC‐Ph.. Pharm World Sci 20, 38–42 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008631413768
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