Person—bodily location of main injury, code NN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Bodily location of main injury |
METEOR identifier: | 268943 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | The bodily location of the injury chiefly responsible for the attendance of the person at the health care facility, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—bodily location of main injury |
Value Domain: | Bodily location code NN |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | If the full International Classification of Diseases - Tenth Revision - Australian Modification code is used to code the injury, this metadata item is not required (see metadata items Principal diagnosis and Additional diagnosis. If any code from 01 to 12 or 26 to 29 in the metadata item Nature of main injury has been selected, the body region affected by that injury must be specified. Select the category that best describes the location of the injury. If two or more categories are judged to be equally appropriate, select the one that comes first on the code list. A major injury, if present, should always be coded rather than a minor injury. If a major injury has been sustained (e.g. a fractured femur), along with one or more minor injuries (e.g. some small abrasions), the major injury should be coded in preference to coding 'multiple injuries'. As a general guide, an injury which, on its own, would be unlikely to have led to the attendance may be regarded as 'minor'. Bodily location of main injury is not required with other nature of main injury codes (code 22 may be used as a filler to indicate that a specific body region code is not required). |
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Comments: | The injury diagnosis is necessary for purposes including epidemiological research, casemix studies and planning. The nature of main injury together with the bodily location of the main injury indicates the diagnosis. This metadata item is related to the ICD-10-AM injury and poisoning classification. However, coding to the full ICD-10-AM injury and poisoning classification (see metadata item Principal diagnosis is not available in most settings where basic injury surveillance is undertaken. This metadata item, in combination with the metadata item Nature of main injury is a practicable alternative. Data coded to the full ICD-10-AM codes can be aggregated to match this item, facilitating data comparison. Further information on the national injury surveillance program can be obtained from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, Flinders University, Adelaide. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Injury Surveillance Unit, Flinders University, Adelaide National Data Standards for Injury Surveillance Advisory Group |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Is re-engineered from Bodily location of main injury, version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (19.5 KB) No registration status See also Injury event—nature of main injury, non-admitted patient code NN{.N} Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Injury surveillance DSS Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 Injury surveillance DSS Health, Superseded 14/12/2009 Injury surveillance DSS 2010-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2010 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Injury surveillance NMDS Health, Superseded 03/05/2006 Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 Injury surveillance NMDS Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 |