Injury surveillance DSS 2010-13

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	393268
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
DSS type:	Data Set Specification (DSS)
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:

01/07/2010

Implementation end date:

30/06/2013

Submitting organisation:

National Health Information Group

Related metadata references:

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Injury event—activity type, code (ICD-10-AM 7th edn) ANNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—activity type, non-admitted patient code N[N]	Mandatory	1
-	Injury event—external cause, code (ICD-10-AM 7th 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.	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 7th edn) ANN{.N[N]}	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