Primary Admit Diagnosis

The Primary Admit Dx is the dx most responsible for an admission to that unit/ward. See Dx Primary for details on how it is collected.

The concept is used by the following indicators:

• ICU Primary Diagnosis ICD10 Chapter Rate
• ICU Diagnosis APACHE Category Rate
• Medicine Primary Diagnosis Rate

Cross checks

See Dx Primary#Data Integrity Checks (SMW)

Related queries

• Query L_Dxs_w_primary
• Query L_ICD10_primary

Legacy info

Legacy info

Old dx schema Admit Diagnosis with highest priority