On 19 April 1997, 52 candidates sat for the second Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) examination at 12 sites across Australia and in New Zealand. Eighteen, or 35%, of the candidates who sat for the exam gained accreditation. This result was similar to the pass rate of 32% for the first ACC examination, in September 1996. The most successful group of candidates had health information management (HIM) qualifications (14 out of 18, or 78%), and the single largest successful group was HIMs from Victoria (8 out of 18, or 44%).
