Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | External cause (admitted patient) |
METEOR identifier: | 333853 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 |
Definition: | The environmental event, circumstance or condition as the cause of injury, poisoning and other adverse effect, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Injury event—external cause |
Value Domain: | External cause code (ICD-10-AM 5th edn) ANN{.N[N]} |
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Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification 5th edition | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
Format: | ANN{.N[N]} | |
Maximum character length: | 6 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | International Classification of Diseases - Tenth Revision - Australian Modification (5th Edition 2004) National Centre for Classification in Health, Sydney |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This code must be used in conjunction with an injury or poisoning code and can be used with other disease codes. Admitted patients should be coded to the complete ICD-10-AM classification. An external cause code should be sequenced following the related injury or poisoning code, or following the group of codes, if more than one injury or condition has resulted from this external cause. Provision should be made to record more than one external cause if appropriate. External cause codes in the range W00 to Y34, except Y06 and Y07 must be accompanied by a place of occurrence code. External cause codes V01 to Y34 must be accompanied by an activity code. |
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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. It is also used as a quality of care indicator of adverse patient outcomes. An extended activity code is being developed in consultation with the National Injury Surveillance Unit, Flinders University, Adelaide. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | National Centre for Classification in Health National Data Standards for Injury Surveillance Advisory Group National Health Data Committee |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Injury event—external cause, code (ICD-10-AM 4th edn) ANN{.N[N]} Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 Has been superseded by Injury event—external cause, code (ICD-10-AM 6th edn) ANN{.N[N]} Health, Superseded 22/12/2009 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Admitted patient care NMDS 2006-07 Health, Superseded 23/10/2006 Implementation start date: 01/07/2006 Implementation end date: 30/06/2007 DSS specific information: As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification. Effective for collection from 01/07/2006 Admitted patient care NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 Implementation start date: 01/07/2007 Implementation end date: 30/06/2008 DSS specific information: As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification. Effective for collection from 01/07/2006 Injury surveillance DSS Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 DSS specific information: As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM (3rd edition) classification. Effective for collection from 01/07/2006 Injury surveillance NMDS Health, Superseded 03/05/2006 Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 DSS specific information: As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM (3rd edition) classification. Effective for collection from 01/07/2006 |
Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Numerator
National Healthcare Agreement: P41-Falls resulting in patient harm in hospitals, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 National Healthcare Agreement: P42-Intentional self-harm in hospitals, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 |