SEER Training Modules
Acronyms: The Automated Cause Coding Systems
| Acronym | Cause Coding 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. |
