A code assigned after institutional health care to specify a disease, injury, morphology, procedure, external cause and/or other factor influencing health status that describes the reason for hospital stay.
Used for epidemiological research, casemix studies; severity of illness analyses; resource utilisation and planning purposes.
Valid codes from the current Australian version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM)
ICD-10-AM It is the current coding standard that disease, injury and morphology codes can NOT be duplicated within an episode; while procedure and external cause codes CAN be duplicated within an episode of care.
Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC): Transmit as fixed length 7 character field, left adjusted and right blank filled.
Queensland Cancer Registry (QCR): The QCR uses the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification and the International Classification of Disease for Oncology.
Implementation in Metadata Sets
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Clinical coding; Diagnosis; ICD-10-AM codes