Medical indemnity claim—primary incident or allegation type, health-care code NN[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Primary incident or allegation type |
METEOR identifier: | 329724 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 |
Definition: | The high level description of the main event or circumstance that led to the medical indemnity claim, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Medical indemnity claim—primary incident or allegation type |
Value Domain: | Health-care incident or allegation type code NN[N] |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) 2010. The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) – Seventh Edition - Tabular list of interventions and Alphabetic index of interventions. Sydney: NCCH, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Only one code may be selected for this data element. The code recorded as the primary incident or allegation type should be that which best reflects the main, dominant or primary cause giving rise to a medical indemnity claim. Where a series of events contributed to the incident that gave rise to a medical indemnity claim, and it is difficult to identify the primary incident or allegation type the first event in the series should be coded. |
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Comments: | The coding categories for this data element have been developed with reference to a range of classifications currently in use, among which there is a high degree of commonality in terms of the categories identified. At the time of developing this data element a list of 46 categories of ‘clinical incident category alleged in claim’ was used in New South Wales to record this information. This list was also adopted for use in Tasmania. In Western Australia eight broad ‘incident type’ categories were used to collect this information on clinical incident notification forms. Two studies of the epidemiology of adverse events (one Australian and one from the United States of America) used similar, broad categories of the nature of adverse events to analyse data (Thomas et al. 2000; Wilson et al. 1995). There is concordance between the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (2006) National Claims and Policies Database claims data item 15 'Cause of loss' and the Medical Indemnity National Collection data item (AIHW 2011). |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | AIHW 2011. Public and private sector medical indemnity claims in Australia 2008–09. Safety and quality of health care series no. 10. Cat. no. HSE 112. Canberra: AIHW APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority) 2006. Data specifications National Claims and Policies Database document number 3.1. Canberra: APRA Thomas EJ, Studdert DM, Burstin HR, Orav EJ, Zeena T, Williams EJ, et al. 2000. Incidence and types of adverse events and negligent care in Utah and Colorado. Medical Care 38: 261–71 Wilson RM, Runciman WB, Gibberd RW, Harrison BT, Newby L & Hamilton JD 1995. The quality in Australian health care study. Medical Journal of Australia 163: 458–471 |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Medical indemnity claim—additional incident or allegation type, health-care code NN[N] Health, Standard 07/12/2011 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Medical indemnity DSS 2012-14 Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 |