Injury event—external cause, text X[X(99)]

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Narrative description of injury event
METEOR identifier:	268946
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Definition:	A textual description of the environmental event, circumstance or condition as the cause of injury, poisoning and other adverse effect.

Data element concept attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Data element concept:

Injury event—external cause

METEOR identifier:

269426

Registration status:

ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016

Definition:

Environmental event, circumstance or condition as the cause of injury, poisoning and other adverse effect.

Context:

Injury surveillance

Object class:

Injury event

Property:

External cause

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Value domain:

Text X[X(99)]

METEOR identifier:

270662

Registration status:

Commonwealth Department of Health, Incomplete 17/11/2015
Community Services (retired), Standard 14/09/2009
Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014
Tasmanian Health, Standard 04/05/2021
Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

Definition:

A combination of alphanumeric characters.

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Text

Data type:

String

Format:

X[X(99)]

Maximum character length:

100

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Write a brief description of how the injury occurred. It should indicate what went wrong (the breakdown event); the mechanism by which this event led to injury; and the object(s) or substance(s) most important in the event. The type of place at which the event occurred, and the activity of the person who was injured should be indicated.

Comments:

The narrative of the injury event is very important to injury control workers as it identifies features of the event not revealed by coded data.

This is a basic item for injury surveillance. The text description of the injury event is structured to indicate context, place, what went wrong and how the event resulted in injury. Further information on the national injury surveillance program can be obtained from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, Flinders University, Adelaide.