Injury event—place of occurrence, non-admitted patient code N[N]

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Element

Short name:

Place of occurrence of external cause of injury (non-admitted patient)

METeOR identifier:

268949

Registration status:

Health, Standard 01/03/2005

Definition:

The place where the external cause of injury, poisoning or adverse effect occurred, as represented by a code.

Data Element Concept:

Injury event—place of occurrence

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

N[N]

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
0	Home
1	Residential Institution
2	School, other institution and public administration area
21	School
22	Health service area
23	Building used by general public or public group
3	Sports and athletics area
4	Street and highway
5	Trade and service area
6	Industrial and construction area
7	Farm
8	Other specified places

Supplementary values:

9	Unspecified place

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

To be used for injury surveillance purposes for non-admitted patients when it is not possible to use ICD-10-AM codes. Select the code which best characterises the type of place where the person was situated when the injury occurred on the basis of the information available at the time it is recorded. If two or more categories are judged to be equally appropriate, select the one that comes first in the code list.