Injury event—external cause, code (ICD-10-AM 7th edn) ANN{.N[N]}

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	External cause
METEOR identifier:	391330
Registration status:	Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
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 attributes

Representational attributes

Classification scheme:

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification 7th edition

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

String

Format:

ANN{.N[N]}

Maximum character length:

Data element attributes

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. The external cause 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 V00 to Y84 must be accompanied by a place of occurrence code.

External cause codes V00 to Y34 must be accompanied by an activity code.

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

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Admitted patient care NMDS 2010-11 Health, Superseded 18/01/2011

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2010 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2011 *DSS specific information:* As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2011-12 Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015
Health, Superseded 11/04/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2011 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2012 *DSS specific information:* As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2012 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2013 *DSS specific information:* As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification.

Injury surveillance DSS 2010-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2010 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2013 *DSS specific information:* As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM (3rd edition) classification.

Implementation in Indicators:

Used as Numerator

National Healthcare Agreement: P62-Hospitalisation for injury and poisoning, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011