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The second or subsequent recorded ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION of a CLINICAL INTERVENTION for an Accident and Emergency Attendance. This is required for recording within an Accident and Emergency Attendance Commissioning Data Set.

See Accident and Emergency Investigation Table for clinical coding and classification structure.

Accident and Emergency Attendance is a CARE CONTACT where the CARE CONTACT TYPE is National Code 01 'Accident And Emergency Attendance'.


For Commissioning Data Set and Schema version 6, this Data Element will be recognised as Secondary Investigation (Accident and Emergency).

For Commissioning Data Set version 6 onwards there are no restrictions on the number of Secondary Investigations (Accident and Emergency) recorded.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
schema	SECONDARY INVESTIGATION (ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY)
plural	ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATIONS - SECOND