Ear and nose surgery cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	567979
Registration status:	Indigenous, Standard 05/12/2017
DSS type:	Data Element Cluster
Scope:	The Ear and nose surgery cluster describes information relating to myringoplasty, myringotomy, adenoidectomy, exploratory surgery, removal of tubes and other surgery.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

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Department of Health

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Steward:

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

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Closing the Gap/Child Health Check Initiative: Ear, nose and throat operation summary form DSS Indigenous, Standard 05/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* In the case where surgery is performed on both the left and right ear, data elements in this cluster should be used to record information for each ear.

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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Seq No.	Metadata item																				Obligation	Max occurs
1	Patient—side of ear, left/right code A *DSS specific information:* The side of the ear is to be recorded when 'yes' is recorded for the following data elements: Patient—myringoplasty indicator, yes/no code N Patient—revision myringoplasty indicator, yes/no/not applicable/unknown/not stated/inadequately described code N Patient—myringotomy indicator, yes/no code N Patient—exploration under anaesthesia indicator, yes/no code N Patient—exploration of middle ear (ME) indicator, yes/no code N Patient—remove tubes indicator, yes/no code N Patient—other surgical procedure performed indicator, yes/no code N.																				Mandatory	2
2	Myringoplasty cluster																				Mandatory	1
3	Myringotomy cluster																				Mandatory	1
4	Patient—adenoidectomy indicator, yes/no code N																				Mandatory	1
5	Patient—exploration under anaesthesia indicator, yes/no code N																				Mandatory	1
6	Patient—exploration of middle ear indicator, yes/no code N																				Mandatory	1
7	Patient—comment, text X[X(99)] *DSS specific information:* This data element should be used to record: a description of the Exploration under anaesthesia a description of the Exploration of the middle ear the reason the surgery performed is different to the surgery requested.																				Optional	3
8	Patient—remove tubes indicator, yes/no code N																				Mandatory	2
9	Patient—other surgical procedure performed indicator, yes/no code N																				Mandatory	2