ICD Medical Thesaurus For Medical Coders

Hello Fellow Coders. About ten years ago, I was working in a medical records department as an ICD trainer and many of the coders that we hired had difficulty finding the correct medical codes to use. As new coders, they did not know sometimes what medical terminology to use for certain diagnoses. I sat down and went through the ICD coding book and matched up medical terminology with other synonymous terminology which had the same or similar meaning of the original medical term. In this book...