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ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - FIRST is the first 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.

For Commissioning Data Set and XML Schema version 6 onwards, ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - FIRST will be recognised as Primary Investigation (Accident and Emergency).

 

This data element is also known by these names:

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