Health-care incident—additional clinician specialty involved in health-care incident, clinical specialties code N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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Short name:![]() | Additional clinician specialty involved in health-care incident |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 532135 |
Registration status:![]() | Health, Standard 21/11/2013 |
Definition:![]() | The clinical specialty of the health-care provider(s) who played a role in the health-care incident that gave rise to a medical indemnity claim, in addition to the principal clinician responsible, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept:![]() | Health-care incident—additional clinician specialty involved in health-care incident |
Value Domain:![]() | Clinical specialties code N[N] |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation:![]() | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Steward:![]() | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents:![]() | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2013. Australia's medical indemnity claims 2011–12. Safety and quality of health care series no.14. Cat. no. HSE 137. Canberra: AIHW AMC (Australian Medical Council) 2013. The List of Australian Recognised Medical Specialties. Canberra. Viewed 17 July 2013, http://www.amc.org.au/images/Recognition/ APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority) 2006. Data specifications National Claims and Policies Database Document Number 3.1. Canberra: APRA Faculty of Pain Medicine 2003. Application for specialty recognition by the Faculty of Pain Medicine to the Australian Medical Council. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Viewed 25 May 2011, http://www.anzca.edu.au/fpm/news-and-reports/ RANZCOG (The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) 2013. About the specialty. Viewed 17 July 2013, http://www.ranzcog.edu.au/the-ranzcog/about-specialty.html |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use:![]() | This data element should be used in conjunction with the data element: Health-care incident— principal clinician specialty involved in health-care incident, clinical specialties code N[N]to record the specialties of the clinicians who played a prominent role in the incident that gave rise to the medical indemnity claim. That is, the individuals whose actions/omissions are directly implicated in ‘what went wrong’. These individuals may or may not be defendants in the medical indemnity claim. For a particular clinician, the specialty recorded should be the main clinical area in which that clinician has formal qualifications (or, in the case of a specialist-in training, is working towards gaining formal qualifications), and/or in which that clinician primarily practices. The specialty recorded may not be the area in which the clinician was working at the time of the incident. For example, if a clinician involved in the incident was a general surgeon, but was working in the Emergency department when the incident occurred, Code 25 ‘General surgery’ should be recorded. Where a private doctor was closely involved in the incident, the specialty of the private doctor should be recorded. This data element should be completed on the basis of available information about the specialty of clinicians closely involved in the incident; specialty should not be assumed based on other information. For example, if the incident occurred in the course of repair to an aortic abdominal aneurysm, Code 66 ’Vascular surgery’ should only be recorded where there is information to confirm that a vascular surgeon was among the clinicians involved. Where a registrar was closely involved in the incident, the specialty for which the registrar was training at the time of the incident should be recorded. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation:![]() | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Steward:![]() | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes Health-care incident—additional clinician specialty involved in health-care incident, clinical specialties code N[N] Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 See also Health-care incident—principal clinician specialty involved in health-care incident, clinical specialties code N[N] Health, Standard 21/11/2013 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:![]() | Medical indemnity NBPDS 2014- Health, Standard 21/11/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Conditional obligation: Conditional on more than one clinician specialty being involved in the health-care incident that gave rise to a medical indemnity claim. DSS specific information: This data element relates to more than one clinician being involved in the health-care incident that gave rise to a medical indemnity claim. Up to three codes may be reported for this data element. |