Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Diagnosis onset type |
METEOR identifier: | 270192 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 |
Definition: | A qualifier for each coded diagnosis to indicate the onset and/or significance of the diagnosis to the episode of care, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Episode of admitted patient care—diagnosis onset type |
Value Domain: | Diagnosis onset type code N |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Assign the relevant diagnosis type flag to all of the ICD-10-AM disease codes recorded in the hospital morbidity system. Specific guidelines for correct assignment of diagnosis flag type are in the ICD-10-AM Australian Coding Standards. The following rules only apply to:
Explanatory notes: The flag on external cause, place of occurrence and activity codes should match that of the corresponding injury or disease code. The flag on morphology codes should match that on the corresponding neoplasm code. Conditions meeting the criteria of principal diagnosis may, in some cases, have a flag of 2. |
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Collection methods: | A diagnosis onset type should be recorded and coded upon completion of an episode of admitted patient care. |
Comments: | Improved analysis of diagnostic information, especially in relation to patient safety and adverse event monitoring. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | National Centre for Classification in Health |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Episode of admitted patient care—condition onset flag, code N Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 Is re-engineered from Diagnosis onset type, version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (17.1 KB) No registration status |