Injury event—human intent of injury, code NN

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	External cause—human intent
METEOR identifier:	268944
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Definition:	The clinician's assessment identifying the most likely role of human intent in the occurrence of the injury or poisoning, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Injury event—human intent of injury

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

String

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
01	Accident - injury not intended
02	Intentional self-harm
03	Sexual assault
04	Maltreatment by parent
05	Maltreatment by spouse or partner
06	Other and unspecified assault
07	Event of undetermined intent
08	Legal intervention (including police) or operations of war
09	Adverse effect or complications of medical and surgical care
10	Other specified intent
11	Intent not specified

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Select the code which best characterises the role of intent in the occurrence of the injury, 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. This metadata item must always be accompanied by an Injury event—external cause, non-admitted patient human intent code NN code.

This Value domain is for use in injury surveillance purposes only, when it is not possible to use a complete ICD-10-AM code (e.g. non-admitted patients in emergency departments).

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:

Enables categorisation of injury and poisoning according to factors important for injury control. This information is necessary for defining and monitoring injury control targets, injury costing and identifying cases for in-depth research.