Vaccine Injury Admissions and/or Outpatient with ICD-10 code T50.Z95A
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From: Chris Johnston
Dear Ministry of Health,
Please provide a dataset split by inpatient admission vs outpatient and emergency room which are coded with ICD-10 code T50.Z95A or U12.9 (separately - not combined). This could be generated from the national minimum discharge dataset submitted by NZ hospitals - or similar.
Please aggregate by month (by admission date) for the last 10 years or as long as ICD-10 has been used - whichever is shorter.
Please split by District Health Board of admission/event.
Aggregates should be number events, min stay in days, average length of stay in days, and max length of stay in days.
So the columns expected are:
- ICD-10 code - T50.Z95A or U12.9
- DHB
- Year
- Month
- Event Type - In Patient, ER, Outpatient
- Events
- Min LOS
- Avg LOS
- Max LOS
We would expect LOS for ER and Outpatient only events to be zero but please explain if this is not the case.
Where:
- an Inpatient stay starts with an ER event please count this as an ER event. If this is not possible please count as it comes out of the database and state the methodology / classification used.
- an event is coded as both T50.Z95A and U12.9 please classify this as U12.9.
- an Inpatient event and Outpatient events occur please count these separately.
If you have any queries please ask and clarify as early as possible.
Yours faithfully,
Chris Johnston
From: Chris Johnston
Dear Ministry of Health,
Please add these two ICD-10 codes to my previous request.
T50.Z95D
T50.Z95S
Yours faithfully,
Chris Johnston
From: OIA Requests
Kia ora Chris,
Thank you for your request for official information. The Ministry's
reference number for your request is: H202200240.
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. If you'd like to calculate the
timeframe, you can use the Ombudsman's online calculator
here: [1]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. If
we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we will
notify you of an extension of that time frame.
If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [2][email address]
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Kia ora Chris,
Thank you for your request for official information received on 14 January
2022 for:
"Please provide a dataset split by inpatient admission vs outpatient and
emergency room which are coded with ICD-10 code T50.Z95A or U12.9
(separately - not combined). This could be generated from the national
minimum discharge dataset submitted by NZ hospitals - or similar.
Please aggregate by month (by admission date) for the last 10 years or as
long as ICD-10 has been used - whichever is shorter.
Please split by District Health Board of admission/event.
Aggregates should be number events, min stay in days, average length of
stay in days, and max length of stay in days.
So the columns expected are:
- ICD-10 code - T50.Z95A or U12.9
- DHB
- Year
- Month
- Event Type - In Patient, ER, Outpatient
- Events
- Min LOS
- Avg LOS
- Max LOS
We would expect LOS for ER and Outpatient only events to be zero but
please explain if this is not the case.
Where:
- an Inpatient stay starts with an ER event please count this as an ER
event. If this is not possible please count as it comes out of the
database and state the methodology / classification used.
- an event is coded as both T50.Z95A and U12.9 please classify this as
U12.9.
- an Inpatient event and Outpatient events occur please count these
separately.”
The Ministry of Health has consolidated this request with your earlier
request for official information under reference number: H202117890.
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 4 February 2022, being
20 working days after the day your first request was received.
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. If
we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we will
notify you of an extension of that time frame.
If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.
Ngâ mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [1][email address]
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From: Chris Johnston
Dear OIA Requests,
Thanks for your acknowledgement and response.
Please do not combine my requests. There are a couple of reasons:
1) They are distinct requests with different searches and activities to undertake - and OIA timeframes.
2) The FYI.ORG.NZ website allows other members of the public who search at a later date to find these requests and see the response. Combining different requests frustrates this process and may cause the MoH more work in future as requests are repeated.
Is you do not split them I will be going to the Ombudsman as this is unreasonable and not customer/public centric.
Yours sincerely,
Chris Johnston
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than 20 working days. If you'd like to calculate the timeframe, you can
use the Ombudsman's online calculator
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Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. This
means we may take some time in responding to your request. The Ministry
regularly updates information about the COVID-19 situation and publishes
OIA responses considered to be of public interest:
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Please also refer to the Unite Against Covid-19 website for copies of
papers, minutes, and key advice for the decisions the Government has made
relating to COVID-19.
Sometimes we may need to clarify aspects of a request. You can expect to
hear from us soon if that is the case here.
Ngā mihi,
OIA Services
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Ministry of Health
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From: Chris Johnston
Dear Ministry of Health,
I understand that I requested the wrong code under the US coding scheme not the Australian coding scheme.
Could you please adjust the OIA request above using the ICD-10-AM code T50.9 Poisoning by
other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances.
I still need the split by emergency, inpatient and outpatient as described above.
Yours faithfully,
Chris Johnston
From: OIA Requests
Thank you for your Official Information Act request. This is
an automatic reply to let you know we received it.
In accordance with the Act, we'll let you know our decision within no more
than 20 working days. If you'd like to calculate the timeframe, you can
use the Ombudsman's online calculator
here: [1]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. This
means we may take some time in responding to your request. The Ministry
regularly updates information about the COVID-19 situation and publishes
OIA responses considered to be of public interest:
[2]https://www.health.govt.nz/about-ministr...
Please also refer to the Unite Against Covid-19 website for copies of
papers, minutes, and key advice for the decisions the Government has made
relating to COVID-19.
Sometimes we may need to clarify aspects of a request. You can expect to
hear from us soon if that is the case here.
Ngā mihi,
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [3][email address]
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Kia ora Chris,
Thank you for your request for official information. The Ministry's
reference number for your request is: H202201215.
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
the day your request was received. If you'd like to calculate the
timeframe, you can use the Ombudsman's online calculator
here: [1]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic response, the Ministry is experiencing
significantly higher volumes of queries and requests for information. If
we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we will
notify you of an extension of that time frame.
If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [2][email address]
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From: Chris Johnston <[3][FOI #18177 email]>
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2022 15:43
To: OIA Requests <[4][email address]>
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Vaccine Injury Admissions
and/or Outpatient with ICD-10 code T50.Z95A
Dear Ministry of Health,
I understand that I requested the wrong code under the US coding scheme
not the Australian coding scheme.
Could you please adjust the OIA request above using the ICD-10-AM code
T50.9 Poisoning by
other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances.
I still need the split by emergency, inpatient and outpatient as described
above.
Yours faithfully,
Chris Johnston
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Please find attached a response to your official information act request
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