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ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DIAGNOSIS - SECOND is the second or subsequent 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 - SECOND will be recognised as Secondary Diagnosis (Accident and Emergency).

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

 

This data element is also known by these names:

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