| HES field name | First regular day or night admission | ||||
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| Field | firstreg | ||||
| Class | Admissons | ||||
| Length and format | 1n | ||||
| Availability | From 2002-03 | ||||
| Description | |||||
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This field indicates whether the episode falls within a sequence of regular day and night admissions and, if so, whether it is the first or subsequent episode within the sequence. |
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| Value | |||||
0 = First in a series 1 = Subsequent to first in a series 8 = Not applicable: this episode of care is neither the first nor any subsequent attendance within a sequence of regular day/night admissions 9 = Not known: this episode is an attendance within a sequence of regular day/night admissions, but the status of this episode within the attendance is not known: a validation error |
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