Meanings
plural codelists
- A list of codes.
The code-groups ranged from 10 to 334, the one-digit numbers being left to indicate the position of the letters in the words or names in the codelist.
2007, Karl Maria Michael de Leeuw, Jan Bergstra, The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook, page 3571 more example
The association of the field to the codelist has the potential of introducing confusion as it seems to imply that more responses are possible than the CRF would permit.
1999, Susanne Prokscha, Practical Guide to Clinical Data Management, page 22
Origin
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