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Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis, Emergency Department (ICD-10-AM 11th Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List code ANN{.N[N]}

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termEmergency department principal diagnosis
Synonymous names:Help on this termED principal diagnosis code
METEOR identifier:Help on this term728005
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 18/06/2021
Definition:Help on this term

The diagnosis established at the conclusion of the patient's attendance in an emergency department to be mainly responsible for occasioning the attendance following consideration of clinical assessment, as represented by a code.

Data Element Concept:Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Classification scheme:Emergency Department International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification, Principal Diagnosis Short List 11th edition
Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termString
Format:Help on this termANN{.N[N]}
Maximum character length:Help on this term6

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

A user guide for the Emergency Department ICD-10-AM (Eleventh Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List (ED Short List) can be found on The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA)'s website (IHPA 2020).

Comments:Help on this term

The ED Short List has been developed by IHPA from the full version of ICD-10-AM. The ED Short List was compiled using data analysis and clinical advice. The ED Short List was revised in April 2020 to include codes for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Reference documents:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority 2020. Emergency Department ICD-10-AM (Eleventh Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List - User guide. Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Sydney. Viewed 24 April 2020, https://www.ihpa.gov.au/what-we-do/classifications/emergency-care/emergency-department-icd-10-am-principal-diagnosis-short-list

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

The phrase 'at the conclusion' in the definition refers to evaluation of findings interpreted by the clinician available at the end of the emergency department stay. This may include information gained from the history of illness, any mental status evaluation, specialist consultations, physical examinations, diagnostic tests or procedures, surgical procedures and pathological or radiological examinations.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Emergency department stay—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 11th edn) ANN{.N[N]}
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Has been superseded by Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis, Emergency Department (ICD-10-AM 11th Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List code ANN{.N[N]}
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Supersedes Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis, Emergency Department (ICD-10-AM 11th Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List code ANN{.N[N]}
  • Health, Superseded 17/07/2020
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 25/05/2020
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2019–20Health, Superseded 18/12/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

Implementation end date: 30/06/2020

Conditional obligation:

The reporting of this data element is conditional for those attendances where the value recorded for Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status is reported as either:

Code 4 - Did not wait to be attended by a health care professional;
Code 5 - Left at own risk after being attended by a health care professional but before the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode was completed;
Code 7 - Dead on arrival, emergency department clinician certified the death of the patient; or
Code 8 - Registered, advised of another health care service, and left the emergency department without being attended by a health care professional.


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