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Notes:
CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SEQUENCE NUMBER is used in the Commissioning Data Sets (version 6-2 onwards) to provide a sequence number for CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION CODES, to facilitate the correct processing of the codes within the Secondary Uses Service.

CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SEQUENCE NUMBERS are applied to all secondary diagnoses (A&E, ICD and READ), procedures (OPCS and READ), and investigations and treatments (A&E).

The Secondary Uses Service will process the secondary CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION CODES in the order specified by the CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SEQUENCE NUMBER through the Payment Grouper, therefore the eventual Healthcare Resource Group output will be determined by the order specified in the Commissioning Data Set submission.

The CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SEQUENCE NUMBER is an attribute of the applicable secondary procedure/diagnosis/investigation/treatment data groups in the CDS-XML schema (version 6-2 onwards), rather than a data element in its own right (each repeat of the secondary data group increments the attribute by 1).  It must NOT be submitted as an individual data element.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SEQUENCE NUMBERS