About auto-suggestions
An auto-suggestion is a unique coding response that coders can apply to requests with the same verbatim, coding definition, and context information during manual coding. This response maps the verbatim to a specific dictionary path.
Using auto-suggestions increases accuracy and consistency in coding.
In a dictionary, a verbatim might be associated with more than one term and code on a hierarchical level, resulting in more than one possible path.
- If one of these paths is the primary path, the Oracle Central Coding application uses that path to autocode the verbatim. This path includes the code, term, and dictionary level, and can be specified using dictionary element configuration. For more information, see About configuring dictionary elements.
- If none of the paths is a primary path, the autocode algorithm cannot select a secondary path until a dictionary manager creates an auto-suggestion for a verbatim.
Coding definitions cannot share auto-suggestions. For multiple studies to share the same auto-suggestion, you must create a coding definition that includes the auto-suggestion for each dictionary that applies to the studies.