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Patient—principal diagnosis, (ICD-10-AM 7th edn) ANN{.N[N]}

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termPrincipal diagnosis—patient
METEOR identifier:Help on this term433356
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
Definition:Help on this termThe diagnosis established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning a patient's service event or episode, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:Patient—principal diagnosis

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Classification scheme:International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification 7th edition
Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termString
Format:Help on this termANN{.N[N]}
Maximum character length:Help on this term6

Data element attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Patient—principal diagnosis, (ICD-10-AM 8th edn) ANN{.N[N]}
  • Health, Superseded 13/11/2014
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2012-13Health, Superseded 13/11/2013

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

For patients with cancer, this data element should record secondary (metastatic) site of cancer where the principal diagnosis is for a secondary (metastatic) cancer. If the principal diagnosis is for a primary site of cancer, this data element should be the same as the Person with cancer—primary site of cancer, code (ICD-10-AM 7th edn) ANN{.N[N]}

For patients who do not have cancer, this data element should record a non-cancer related ICD-10-AM code as the principal diagnosis.

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