Injury surveillance NMDS

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	334072
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 03/05/2006
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	The scope of this minimum data set is patient level data from selected emergency departments of hospitals and other settings.

Collection methods:

National reporting arrangements

State and territory health authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis.

Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated

Financial years ending 30 June each year.

Implementation start date:

01/07/2005

Implementation end date:

30/06/2006

Submitting organisation:

National Health Information Group

Related metadata references:

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Injury event—activity type, code (ICD-10-AM 5th edn) ANNNN *DSS specific information:* Effective for collection from 01/07/2006	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—activity type, non-admitted patient code N[N]	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—external cause, code (ICD-10-AM 5th edn) ANN{.N[N]} *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	Mandatory	99
-	Injury event—external cause, text X[X(99)]	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—human intent of injury, code NN	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—nature of main injury, non-admitted patient code NN{.N} *DSS specific information:* Left justified, zero filled.	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—place of occurrence, code (ICD-10-AM 5th edn) ANN{.N[N]} *DSS specific information:* Effective for collection from 01/07/2006	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—place of occurrence, non-admitted patient code N[N]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—bodily location of main injury, code NN	Mandatory	1