Format/length:	an6
HES item:
National Codes:
Default Codes:

Notes:
The first recorded ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DIAGNOSIS of PATIENT DIAGNOSIS for an Accident and Emergency Attendance. This is required for recording within an Accident and Emergency Attendance Commissioning Data Set.

See Accident and Emergency Diagnosis Tables 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 XML schema version 6, this Data Element will be recognised as Primary Diagnosis (Accident and Emergency)

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
schema	PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS (ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY)
plural	ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DIAGNOSIS - FIRST