What is a verbatim?

A verbatim is the original, free-form, reported text that describes the adverse event, disease, drug, or other item to be coded in Oracle Central Coding. You can map each verbatim to only one coding dictionary. For example, to code to both Japanese and English dictionaries for the same item on the form, you must create two verbatims on the form.

A verbatim can be one of the following:

• Top-level item.
• Child of a top-level compound item.
• Child of a nested compound item.