Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Principal diagnosis—episode of care |
METEOR identifier: | 514273 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 13/11/2014 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 |
Definition: | The diagnosis established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning an episode of admitted patient care, an episode of residential care or an attendance at the health care establishment, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Episode of care—principal diagnosis |
Value Domain: | Diagnosis code (ICD-10-AM 8th edn) ANN{.N[N]} |
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Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification 8th edition | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
Format: | ANN{.N[N]} | |
Maximum character length: | 6 |