Create questions for medical coding

Create a question to capture a verbatim term, the Route of Administration, and Indication (the context items) and the coding target fields.

Understand the data flow between Oracle Clinical One Platform and Oracle Central Coding

Having a basic understanding of the data flow between an Oracle Clinical One Platform study and the Oracle Central Coding system is useful when designing the forms and fields that interact with the coding system.

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Forms used for medical coding purposes, such as Adverse Events, Concomitant Medications, and Medical History, can be either a simple repeating form or a two-section form. For more information, see Create a repeating form and Create a form with two sections.

Based on a schedule defined in Oracle Central Coding, the system pulls verbatim terms and associated context item values from Oracle Clinical One Platform study forms.

Oracle Central Coding uses details defined during the study design and the Oracle Central Coding configuration to attempt to autocode each term. Users of Oracle Central Coding manually code terms that the system does not autocode.

A second schedule, also defined in Oracle Central Coding, returns dictionary data for coded verbatim terms to the coding targets on the form.

If a user changes the verbatim term or context values for a coded verbatim term, the coding targets are cleared by Oracle Clinical One Platform rules. Oracle Central Coding then pulls back the verbatim and its context values for recoding.

For more information about Oracle Central Coding, see the User Guide.

  • Create a coding question to capture a verbatim term
    Create a coding question to capture verbatim terms, such as a medication (Ibuprofen), adverse event (headache), or a medical procedure (Appendectomy).
  • Create the coding context items
    Create the context items: Route of Administration to capture how a medication was given, for example, orally or intravenously, and Indication to capture why the medication was given, for example, headache.
  • Create the coding target fields
    Create the necessary coding target fields to store the details extracted from an Oracle Central Coding dictionary. For example, System Organ Class Term and Code for a MedDRA dictionary, and Trade Name Term and Code for a WHO DD dictionary.

Parent topic: Question types and settings