PAT_ENC_DX

Description:

The patient encounter diagnosis table contains one record for each diagnosis associated with each encounter level of service. This table will contain all diagnoses specified on the Order Summary screen.

Primary Key

Column Name	Ordinal Position
PAT_ENC_CSN_ID	1
LINE	2

Column Information

	Name	Type	Discontinued?
1	PAT_ENC_DATE_REAL	FLOAT	No
	This is a numeric representation of the date of this encounter in your system. The integer portion of the number specifies the date of the encounter. The digits after the decimal point indicate multiple visits on one day.
2	LINE	INTEGER	No
	The line number of the diagnosis within the encounter. This is the second column in the primary key and uniquely identifies this diagnosis on the encounter.
3	CONTACT_DATE	DATETIME	No
	The contact date of the encounter associated with this diagnosis. Note: There may be multiple encounters on the same calendar date.
4	PAT_ENC_CSN_ID	NUMERIC	No
	A unique serial number for this encounter. This number is unique across all patients and encounters in the system.
5	DX_ID_DX_NAME	VARCHAR	No
	The name of the diagnosis.
6	ANNOTATION	VARCHAR	No
	The annotation (description) text entered for this diagnosis by the clinical system user. This field is NULL if no annotation was entered during the encounter. Order entry in clinical system limits this field to 160 characters.
7	DX_QUALIFIER_C_NAME	VARCHAR	No
	The category value for the diagnosis qualifier. This field is null if no qualifier was entered. May contain organization-specific values: Yes
8	PRIMARY_DX_YN	VARCHAR	No
	This is a one character field that indicates whether this diagnosis was the primary diagnosis for the encounter. If the diagnosis was the primary this field will have a value of 'Y' otherwise it will have a value of 'N'.
9	COMMENTS	VARCHAR	No
	Any text comment associated with the encounter diagnosis. This field is NULL if no comment was provided.
10	DX_CHRONIC_YN	VARCHAR	No
	Stores the chronic flag for a diagnosis. May contain organization-specific values: No Category Entries: No Yes
11	DX_STAGE_ID	NUMERIC	No
	The stage for the diagnosis.
12	DX_UNIQUE	VARCHAR	No
	Unique identifier given when a diagnosis is added to the encounter diagnosis list.
13	DX_ED_YN	VARCHAR	No
	Definitively identifies an encounter diagnosis (I EDG 18400) as being an ED clinical impression. This is important to differentiate ED diagnoses from diagnoses filed to the same item as in the IP setting. The category values for this column were already listed for column: DX_CHRONIC_YN
14	DX_LINK_PROB_ID	NUMERIC	No
	Stores the problem ID of the linked problem.