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Table 3 The three final columns are the percentages number of telephone consultations detected by the two coding methods alone or both in combination. U and J refer to the LOCATE values

From: The coding of telephone consultations in UK primary care databases: are we picking up all the calls?

  

% of total

Year

Total

U/J only

Read codes only

Both

2000

993

76.7

20.7

2.5

2001

1191

78.7

16.7

4.6

2002

1394

64.9

28.6

6.5

2003

2102

70.7

22.5

6.8

2004

3232

59.3

28.2

12.4

2005

4139

57.6

30.1

12.3

2006

3831

45.8

41.1

13.1

2007

4381

39.2

47.1

13.7

2008

4711

33.2

51.4

15.4

2009

5133

32.2

50.7

17.1

2010

5648

28.1

54.6

17.4

2011

6178

28.5

53.5

18

2012

7152

28.8

53.7

17.5

2013

7194

27.1

55.7

17.1

2014

2206

29.5

55.2

15.4