Person—potentially treatable death indicator, yes/no code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Potentially treatable death indicator
METEOR identifier:	550825
Registration status:	National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Definition:	An indicator of whether a person's cause of death was treatable within the present health system, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Person—potentially treatable death indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Boolean

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Underlying cause of death is central to mortality coding and comparable international mortality reporting.

CODE 1 Yes

Record if one of the codes represented below.

Treatable deaths as specified by the following ICD-10 codes with applicable age groups in brackets. If no age group is specified, all deaths of individuals aged between 0 and 74 years are included:

Treatable deaths includes the following ICD-10 codes with applicable age groups in brackets. If no age group is specified, all deaths of individuals aged between 0 and 74 years are included. A15-A19, A38-A41, A46, A48.1, B50-B54, B90, C18-C21, C43-C44, C50 (females only), C53-C55, C67, C73, C81, C91.0-C91.1, D10-D36, E00-E07, half of all deaths attributed to E10-E14, E24-E25, E27, E70.0, E74.2, G00, G03, G40-G41, H31.1, H65-H70, I01-I09, I11-I13, half of all deaths attributed to I20-I125, half of all deaths attributed to I60-I69, J00-J06, J13-J15, J18, J45-J46 (0-44 years), K25-K28, K35-K38, K40-K46, K80-K83, K85-K86, L03, N00-N07, N13, N17-N21, N35, N40, P00, P03-P95 and Q00-Q99.

CODE 2 No

Record if not one of the codes represented above.

Comments:

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) codes and classifies the underlying cause of death (UCOD) according to the rules and guidelines for mortality coding adopted by the World Health Assembly and set out in the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD).

The ABS uses the Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) to process and code cause-of-death information reported on death certificates.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

National Health Performance Authority

Origin:

Australian Bureau of Statistics 2004. Information Paper: Cause of death certification. Catalogue no. 1205.0.55.001. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Viewed 31 August 2005.

National Center for Health Statistics 2005. About the Mortality Medical Data System. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Viewed 31 August 2005.

World Health Organisation 2004. The International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, tenth revision, (2nd edn). Geneva: World Health Organisation.

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