| Acronym |
System
|
| 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
|
| MICAR |
Mortality Medical Indexing, Classification
And Retrieval --a computer program that takes diagnoses
and translates words into code numbers of ICD-9 (CM) |
| TRACER |
Target Recognition of Automatically
Coded Entity References --an automated coding program
used at the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys for coding
death certificates |
| 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. |
