Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-10 2nd edn) ANN-ANN

Type: Data Element
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Stewardship Organisation: Aristotle Demo Organisation
Endorsed by: Health : Standard on Oct. 1, 2008

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Created: 08 March 2015
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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. (WHO 2004)

Components

Data Element (this item)

Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-10 2nd edn) ANN-ANN

Data Element Concept
Person—underlying cause of death
- Object Class
  Person
- Property
  Underlying cause of death
Value Domain
Underlying cause of death code (ICD-10 2nd edn) ANN-ANN

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Underlying cause of death code (ICD-10 2nd edn) ANN-ANN ".

Data Type	String
Format	ANN-ANN
Maximum character length	6

Comments

Guide for use:
Underlying cause of death is central to mortality coding and comparable international mortality reporting.

Origin:

Australian Bureau of Statistics 2004. Information Paper: Cause of death certification. Catalogue no. 1205.0.55.001. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Viewed 31 August 2005.

National Center for Health Statistics 2005. About the Mortality Medical Data System. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Viewed 31 August 2005.

World Health Organisation 2004. The International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, tenth revision, (2nd edn). Geneva: World Health Organisation.

Comments:

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) codes and classifies the underlying cause of death (UCOD) according to the rules and guidelines for mortality coding adopted by the World Health Assembly and set out in the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD).

The ABS uses the Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) to process and code cause-of-death information reported on death certificates.

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