Central Distributor SID: Description of Data Elements

TMDXn - Diagnosis present at admission

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General Notes

Uniform Values

State Specific Notes

General Notes

TMDXn indicates whether each diagnosis (DXn) was present at admission. This provides an indicator of complications arising during a hospitalization. If there is a time of onset for which no diagnosis code is present, TMDXn is set to missing (.). Beginning in the 1998 data, this data element is called DXatAdmitn.

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Uniform Values

Variable Description Value Value Description TMDXn Diagnosis present at admission 0 Diagnosis not present at admission 1 Diagnosis present at admission . Missing or diagnosis is an E-code .A Invalid

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State Specific Notes

None

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