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Patient—extent of harm from a health-care incident, code N[N]

Definition

The extent of overall harm, in terms of impairment, activity limitation or participation restriction, to the patient from a health-care incident, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Patient—extent of harm from a health-care incident, code N[N]

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Extent of harm from a health-care incident code N[N] ".
Data Type Number
Format N[N]
Maximum character length 2
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 4 Death
7 Mild injury
8 Moderate injury
9 Severe injury
Supplementary Values 97 Not applicable (no body function or structure affected)
99 Not stated/inadequately described

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 2
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0