Self Instructional Manual for Cancer Registrars - SEER - National ...

GRATEFUL MED A system for simplifying the process of searching for and retrieving
biomedical information on the MEDLARS system (on-line data base).
PDQ
The Physicians Data Query: An on-line data base which makes state-ofthe-art
treatment information, directory information, and protocol
information available to the medical community. This data base is
maintained by the International Cancer Research Data Base Branch,
International Cancer Information Center, NCI (on-line data base).
THE AUTOMATED
CAUSE CODING SYSTEM
TRACER
Target Reco_,nition of Automatically Coded Entity References--an automated coding program
used at the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys for coding death certificates
MICAR
Mortality medical Indexing. Classification, And Retrieval--a computer program that takes
diagnoses and translates words into code numbers of ICD-9 (CM)
ACME
Automated Classification of Medical Entities--the computer program used by the National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS) to select the underlying cause of death after the individual diagnoses
have been coded
TRANSAX
TRANSlate the AXis of Classification of the manually assigned codes into a form amenable to
person-based analyses of multiple causes of death. This resolves multiple anomalies when coding
death certificates in the United States.
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