Principal diagnosis

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Property
METEOR identifier:	269186
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016
Definition:	The diagnosis chiefly responsible for occasioning a service event or episode.
Property group:	Service provision event

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Data Element Concepts implementing this property:	Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 Tasmanian Health, Standard 25/05/2020 Emergency service stay—principal diagnosis Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—principal diagnosis Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Episode of care—principal diagnosis ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 16/03/2016 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—principal diagnosis Health, Retired 22/12/2011 Patient—principal diagnosis ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018 Health, Standard 07/12/2011