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ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DIAGNOSIS - FIRST is 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.

For Commissioning Data Set and XML schema version 6 onwards, ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DIAGNOSIS - FIRST 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