OPERATION STATUS CODE
 Related DDCN/DSCN/ISN
Description Where Used Attribute

Format/Length:an1
National Codes:See OPERATION STATUS CODE
Default Codes:9 - Not known

Notes:
OPERATION STATUS CODE is the same as attribute OPERATION STATUS CODE.

OPERATION STATUS CODE should be used once for each record.

Use in the Future Outpatient CDS:
If it is not intended to perform a procedure at the future attendance, National Code 8 'No operative procedure performed or intended' should be submitted. Otherwise this data element should be omitted.

For the Commissioning Data Sets, Not known means "a finished episode/out-patient attendance but no data entered or the episode is unfinished and no data needs to be present. This would be a validation error only for a finished episode".

 

This data element is also known by these names:
ContextAlias
pluralOPERATION STATUS CODES