Whats this mean in my medical records ??? It's about Fancy Iced Cakes...

[ImitationofBeing]

Just having a nosey at my online medical records.

There's several references about cake.

2 just say Cake
1 says Fancy iced cake.

What are they on about ???

It is probably coded info not for the patient. I don't know this one, ask your doctor. Possibly a bored data entry clerk.
Many you know; NBM - nil by mouth DNR - do not resusitate etc.

This is phenomenal. Thanks everyone for an intriguing mystery with a satisfying explanation

@helpIhateclothesshopping

It appears to be an American coding system, the link further up the thread takes you to some government Web page in the state of Georgia. Absolutely no idea what it means, probably some secret way of describing people that only doctors can read.

It's SNOMED.

a massive international medical coding system. In loads of different languages.

[quote BertieBotts]@NiceGerbil they probably do have codes for those things already. The reason for these being placeholders is that there was no code on the system for Coronavirus related things. So various practices have chosen innocuous or unusual codes that are unlikely to be used elsewhere as a placeholder. Someone else explained above that their practice was using "sucked into a jet engine".

When the software gets an update, the idea is that they run a mass search and replace all those terms with the correct one so that it makes sense in the future. Or they quite probably never bother because they don't have time and it's out of date and unneeded anyway. If someone has had a jab then getting cleared for that jab is done and dusted, no longer relevant. But it's harmless to have something like cake on their records. Harmless enough not to bother wasting time searching all the records that contain that and replacing them assuming there isn't a mass replace function in the program.[/quote]
www.snomed.org/news-and-events/articles/how-to-code-covid-19-data-using-snomedct-(1)

SNOMED codes for covid 19 released into production march 2020.

Why guess? Google is great.

acronymsandslang.com/meaning-of/medicine-and-science/CAKE.html

[quote MissMoan]acronymsandslang.com/meaning-of/medicine-and-science/CAKE.html[/quote]
Please don't spread this wholly inaccurate and irrelevant information, it could cause unnecessary anxiety in the OP 😡😡

[quote MissMoan]acronymsandslang.com/meaning-of/medicine-and-science/CAKE.html[/quote]
I was going too say, hope op realises that's v silly!

But just because something is updated, doesn't mean everyone gets the update straight away? I don't know whether it's one of those that pushes the update to all users or you have to buy the latest version. It would make more sense if it was the former, admittedly, but someone above said their practice was using placeholder codes so they must not have got the update in March last year.

[quote WestendVBroadway]@ImitationofBeing, Is your GP called Dr Oetker?[/quote]
😂😂😂

SNOMED codes for covid 19 released into production march 2020.

OP hasn't said she had Covid though. It could be code for the specific vaccine, or something else related to having the jab that there weren't codes for at the time.

There's a SNOMED code for "wears odd socks" and "wears dull clothes"

And also "wears daywear during the night" but no "wears nightwear hiring the day". The school run mums in PJs haven't come to the attention of the SNOMED programmers yet then

snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/366007004

[quote fiveleftfeet]There's a SNOMED code for "wears odd socks" and "wears dull clothes"

And also "wears daywear during the night" but no "wears nightwear hiring the day". The school run mums in PJs haven't come to the attention of the SNOMED programmers yet then

snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/366007004[/quote]
Apologies I am spreading fake news! There is a nightwear during the day code! I just missed it.

The PJ on the school run people can sleep easy knowing there is a code for them after all

You didn't say what you went for but I was wondering if you had a designer vagina that might make sense or is it just my imagination.

I was thinking CAKE might be an abbreviation & then fancy iced cake came up, so i have no idea!

@ImitationofBeing

I am convinced its related to the Covid jabs and administration. I won't be asking to remove it. They've enough to sort out , for example they need to think what to call any following boosters - gateaux, lemon tart, choux bun.

I think you're right. It would be awful to write High risk, higher risk etc on the notes

You could ask them, seen as its your data they have a legal obligation to.ensure its in a format you understand under GDPR act so ask them what it means

Im a retired dental nurse. We had some and thankfully few patients that were a PITA. ‘A pain in the arse’. If they ever asked we were told to say it stands for ‘patient in the afternoon’.

Thanks for this it gave me lots of smiles and a few sniggers

@Yespresh

Im a retired dental nurse. We had some and thankfully few patients that were a PITA. ‘A pain in the arse’. If they ever asked we were told to say it stands for ‘patient in the afternoon’.

I'd see right through that one though.

@NoTimeToDye

Does the Ub0Eu mean something?

Ub = urinary, bladder?
0 = absence of something?
Eu = bacteria?

So it should say 'Bacterial bladder infection' but someone's been having a laugh filling in the descriptions and thought 'Fancy iced cake' would be better???

Infection causing yeast exuberance?

Chocolate cake mentioned too

Years ago it was in the news that a GP was writing "low watt" on patients' records who they thought were "not very bright"!

Looks like voice activation software has converted notes inaccurately. Book phone appointment with GP for clarity or send an email asking for an explanation.

In Snomed I've seen this used to describe parent child relationships, its not my field so can't really elaborate, but at least you're not crumbly cake

I’m loving this thread. I never post but I’m astounded by there being a thread entirely about SNOMED, CTV3, Read codes and clinical coding