Development of General Practice Diagnostic Terminology and Coding and Empirical Study on Its Application

Background Establishing a unified set of diagnostic terms and codes for general practice is an important means to improve the service level of community health service institutions and promote the construction of general practice system in China. Establishing a unified set of diagnostic terms and codes of general practice is an important way to improve the service level of community health service institutions and the construction of general practice system in China. However, there has been a lack of standardized diagnostic terms and codes suitable for the development situation of general practice in China, leading to non-standard diagnosis of general practitioners, which has seriously hindered the development of general practice in China. Objective To construct a set of diagnostic terms and codes for general practice in community health care service, and validate its efficiency, so as to promote the standardization of community general practice diagnosis. Methods A set of diagnostic terms and codes for gener