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.

• When there are multiple competing diagnosis choose the diagnosis that is the most severe or responsible for the admission. At times this may be difficult to determine, use your best clinical judgment based on the documentation.
• If multiple trauma is part of the admit diagnosis, then among this group of linked ICD10 codes, the Primary Admit Diagnosis would be either the Multiple trauma or the "worst" thing injured, e.g. Brain injury, diffuse (TBI), injury/trauma

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