Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-9) {A}NNN{.N}
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Underlying cause of death |
Synonymous names: | UCOD code |
METEOR identifier: | 783283 |
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-9) {A}NNN{.N} |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) | |
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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 |
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Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-8) {A}NNN{.N} Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | National mortality database DSS 1979 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/01/1979 Implementation end date: 31/12/1979 DSS specific information: The leading alphabetic character and numeric character following the decimal were not collected as part of this data set. |
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