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released: 18 Jul 2003

Data Set Specifications (DSS) are metadata sets that are not mandated for collection but are recommended as best practice. It is recommended that, if collecting data for the purposes of primary patient care, planning or analysis, the entire DSS be collected.This metadata set is primarily concerned with the clinical use of CV-data. It could also be used by a wider range of health and health-related establishments that create, use or maintain, records on health care clients.The collection of cardiovascular data (CV-data) in this metadata set is voluntary.The definitions used in CV-data are designed to underpin the data collected by health professionals in their day-to-day practice. They relate to the realities of a clinical consultation and the ongoing nature of care and relationships that are formed between doctors and patients in clinical practice.

ISSN 1329 4555; ISBN 978 1 74024 287 5; Cat. no. HWI 46; 96pp.; $22.00

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Data Set Specification Cardiovascular Disease (clinical) - National Health Data Dictionary, Version 12

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  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Contents
  • Sections
    • Cardiovascular disease (clinical) DSS
    • Data elements included
      • Alcohol consumption frequency - self report
      • Alcohol consumption in standard drinks per day - self report
      • Australian postcode
      • Behaviour-related risk factor intervention
      • Behaviour-related risk factor intervention - purpose
      • Blood pressure - diastolic measured
      • Blood pressure - systolic measured
      • Carer availability
      • Cholesterol-HDL - measured
      • Cholesterol-LDL - calculated
      • Cholesterol-total - measured
      • Country of birth
      • Creatinine serum - measured
      • CVD drug therapy - condition
      • Date of birth
      • Date of diagnosis
      • Date of referral to rehabilitation
      • Diabetes status
      • Diabetes therapy type
      • Division of general practice number
      • Fasting status
      • Formal community support access status
      • Height - measured
      • Indigenous status
      • Labour force status
      • Living arrangement
      • Person identifier
      • Physical activity sufficiency status
      • Preferred language
      • Premature cardiovascular disease family history - status
      • Proteinuria - status
      • Renal disease therapy
      • Service contact date
      • Sex
      • Tobacco smoking - consumption/quantity (cigarettes)
      • Tobacco smoking status
      • Triglycerides - measured
      • Vascular history
      • Vascular procedures
      • Waist circumference - measured
      • Weight - measured
    • Supporting data elements and data element concepts
      • Alcohol consumption - concept

Recommended citation

National Health Data Committee (now HDSC) 2003. Data set specification, cardiovascular disease (clinical): National Health Data Dictionary version 12.. National Health Data Dictionary. Cat. no. HWI 46. Canberra: AIHW.