DATA COLLECTION – What Data is available
DATA COLLECTION – What Data is available
DATA FROM CORONIAL FILES
The Case Management System (CMS) contains data fields (both free text and coded). Full text reports are not available, however on case closure New Zealand Coronial Reports will be uploaded to Australia’s National Coronial Information System. The data set commences from 1 July 2007
CMS Data fields include:
- Name
- Date of notification of death
- Age
- Sex
- Date of birth
- Place of usual residence
- Period of residence in New Zealand
- Country of birth
- Employment status
- Usual occupation
- If a work-related incident
- Occupation at the time of incident
- Industry at the time of incident
- Marital status
- Ethnicity
- Sexual Orientation
- Time/location of incident
- Activity at time of incident
- Intent (both suspected at time death reported and final)
- Mechanism of injury (primary, secondary and tertiary)
- Object or substance involved (primary, secondary and tertiary)
- Medical cause(s) of death (as specified in post mortem report)
- Coroner’s provisional and Final Finding as to cause(s) and circumstances of death
- Where the death is related to a motor vehicle accident:
- vehicle type
- driver/passenger
- Counterpart
- context
- user
Additional text field summaries are used for location events. They include a brief synopsis of the following reports:
- Police narrative of circumstances
- Witness testimony
- Toxicology report
CMS also contains the following additional coded fields:
- ICD-10 Cause of Death codes (underlying cause codes)
- (Note the underlying cause of death will also appear within the medical cause(s) of death section). Information about ICD-10 codes and the classification structure can be downloaded from the WHO website at www.who.int/classifications/icd/en
- ICECI external causes of injury codes
