Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-8) {A}NNN{.N}
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
---|---|
Short name: | Underlying cause of death |
Synonymous names: | UCOD code |
METEOR identifier: | 774227 |
Registration status: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 |
Definition: | The disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to a person's death or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—underlying cause of death |
Value Domain: | Underlying cause of death code (ICD-8) {A}NNN{.N} |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) | |
---|---|---|
Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
Format: | {A}NNN{.N} | |
Maximum character length: | 5 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
---|
Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
---|---|
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-7) {A}NNN{.N} Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 11/08/2023 Has been superseded by Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-9) {A}NNN{.N} Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | National mortality database DSS 1968-1977 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/01/1968 Implementation end date: 31/12/1977 DSS specific information: The leading alphabetic character and numeric character following the decimal were not collected as part of this data set. National mortality database DSS 1978 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/01/1978 Implementation end date: 31/12/1978 DSS specific information: The leading alphabetic character and numeric character following the decimal were not collected as part of this data set. |