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Below, you'll find all the codelists we have used in OpenSAFELY research to date.

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Strong Opioids BNF
User requirements

A codelist is needed of all strong opioids used for analgesia (any route) excluding cough suppression, motility, general anaesthesia, opiate use disorder - this is for a project looking at opioid prescribing for patients on hospital waiting lists. This will use the BNF definition of strong opioids https://bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summaries/analgesics/

Sensitivity versus specificity

All strong opioids

Relevant definitions or links to important reference sources

BNF definition of weak/strong opioids - https://bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summaries/analgesics/:

Existing relevant codelists

Nil

Published by OpenSAFELY
Strong Opioids - dmd dm+d
User requirements

A codelist is needed of all strong opioids used for analgesia (any route) excluding cough suppression, motility, general anaesthesia, opiate use disorder - this is for a project looking at opioid prescribing for patients on hospital waiting lists. This will use the BNF definition of strong opioids https://bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summaries/analgesics/

Sensitivity versus specificity

All strong opioids

Relevant definitions or links to important reference sources

BNF definition of weak/strong opioids - https://bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summaries/analgesics/:

Existing relevant codelists

Nil

Published by OpenSAFELY
Structured Medication Review - NHS England SNOMED CT

SNOMED code to support NHS England Structured Medication Review Service.

Published by OpenSAFELY
Structured medication review codes SNOMED CT

Taken from the STRUCTMEDRVW_COD refset published by NHSD.

Sulfasalazine (oral) BNF
Published by OpenSAFELY
Sulfasalazine-oral (dmd) dm+d

Oral sulfasalazine preparation in dm+d

Published by OpenSAFELY
Sulfonamides and trimethoprim (antibacterials) dm+d

Sulfonamides and trimethoprim codelist extracted from antibacterials codelist (https://www.opencodelists.org/codelist/opensafely/antibacterials/27089eaa/)

Published by UKHSA
Supplementary list of diabetes codes SNOMED CT

Taken from the DRSDM1_COD refset published by NHSD.

Support and refer stop smoking service and advisor codes SNOMED CT

Taken from the REFERSSSA_COD refset published by NHSD.

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) Codes SNOMED CT

Taken from the SVT_COD refset published by NHSD.

Surgery Emergency OPCS-4 codes WITHOUT complication codes OPCS-4

This is a list of all the emergency OPCS-4 codes (as defined by RCS priority groups 1a and 1b), excluding the complication OPCS-4 codes for amputations, dislocations, compartment syndrome and washouts

Published by OpenSAFELY
Surgery emergency and immediate procedure OPCS-4 codes OPCS-4

OPCS-4 codes indicating an emergency or immediate procedure. Can be used in addition to primary procedure code

Published by OpenSAFELY
Surgery for peripheral artery disease CTV3

DEFINITION: Surgery for peripheral artery disease

Variables: (1) a binary variable denoting the presence of one of the codes at any point in the patient record. (2) the earliest date of such a code.

Published by OpenSAFELY
Surgery staged and revision procedure OPCS-4 codes OPCS-4

OPCS-4 codes indicating planned staged OR revision procedure. Can be used in addition to primary procedure code

Published by OpenSAFELY
Symptoms: PTSD SNOMED CT

Code list aiming to identify individuals consulting complaining of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder

Published by OpenSAFELY