Patient—presumptive diagnosis type, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Presumptive diagnosis type (code) |
| METEOR identifier: | 524832 |
| Registration status: | Indigenous, Standard 05/09/2014 |
| Definition: | A diagnosis of a patient's ear health through a presumptive process by a health care professional, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Patient—presumptive diagnosis type |
| Value Domain: | Presumptive ear health diagnosis type code N[N] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N[N] | |
| Maximum character length: | 2 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | No abnormality discovered (NAD) |
| 2 | Acute otitis media (AOM) | |
| 3 | Acute otitis media with perforation | |
| 4 | Chronic suppurative otitis media (active discharge) | |
| 5 | Chronic suppurative otitis media (inactive dry perforation) | |
| 6 | Otitis media with effusion (OME) | |
| 7 | Foreign body | |
| 8 | Other | |
| Supplementary values: | 99 | Not stated |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | CODE 2 Acute otitis media Describes the presence of suppurative (infected) middle ear fluid with intact bulging or recent discharge and or bulging eardrum. Describes the presence of suppurative (infected) middle ear fluid with a perforated eardrum. CODE 4 Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) active discharge A persistent suppurative discharge from the middle ear through a tympanic membrane perforation for more than six weeks. CODE 5 Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) inactive dry perforation A condition that appears as a hole in the eardrum without any evidence of suppurative otitis media (either acute or chronic). The presence of intact eardrum and middle ear fluid without symptoms or signs of infection. Any object originating outside the body. |
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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | See also Patient—presumptive diagnosis type, text X[X(99)] Indigenous, Standard 05/09/2014 |
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