Patient—number of teeth affected by caries, total N[N]
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Number of teeth affected by caries (total) |
| Synonymous names: | Dental caries experience; Decay experience |
| METEOR identifier: | 500127 |
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| Definition: | The total number of a patient's teeth which are affected by caries as identified by a dental practitioner. |
| Data Element Concept: | Patient—number of teeth affected by caries |
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Representational attributes | |||||
| Representation class: | Total | ||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||
| Format: | N[N] | ||||
| Maximum character length: | 2 | ||||
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Collection and usage attributes | |||||
| Guide for use: | The number of teeth affected by caries is used in conjunction with Patient—result of caries experience on permanent teeth code A and Patient—result of caries experience on teeth, deciduous code a to calculate the dmft/DMFT (for deciduous/permanent teeth, excluding teeth surfaces) score for a patient. | ||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. | ||||
| Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||
Relational attributes | |||||
| Related metadata references: | See also Patient—result of caries experience on teeth, deciduous code a
See also Patient—result of caries experience on teeth, permanent code A
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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