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Definition

An indicator of whether a person's cause of death was treatable within the present health system, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Yes/no code N ".
Data Type Boolean
Format N
Maximum character length 1
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 Yes
2 No

Comments

Guide for use:

Underlying cause of death is central to mortality coding and comparable international mortality reporting.

CODE 1 Yes

Record if one of the codes represented below.

Treatable deaths as specified by the following ICD-10 codes with applicable age groups in brackets. If no age group is specified, all deaths of individuals aged between 0 and 74 years are included:

Treatable deaths includes the following ICD-10 codes with applicable age groups in brackets. If no age group is specified, all deaths of individuals aged between 0 and 74 years are included. A15-A19, A38-A41, A46, A48.1, B50-B54, B90, C18-C21, C43-C44, C50 (females only), C53-C55, C67, C73, C81, C91.0-C91.1, D10-D36, E00-E07, half of all deaths attributed to E10-E14, E24-E25, E27, E70.0, E74.2, G00, G03, G40-G41, H31.1, H65-H70, I01-I09, I11-I13, half of all deaths attributed to I20-I125, half of all deaths attributed to I60-I69, J00-J06, J13-J15, J18, J45-J46 (0-44 years), K25-K28, K35-K38, K40-K46, K80-K83, K85-K86, L03, N00-N07, N13, N17-N21, N35, N40, P00, P03-P95 and Q00-Q99.

CODE 2 No

Record if not one of the codes represented above.

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.

References

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.

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


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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