III_3_2_1_Date of Inpatient Admission Flag

III.3.2.1 Date of Inpatient Admission Flag

This data item is used to explain why there is no appropriate value in the corresponding date field.

Depending on the registry software, these codes may be applied in the background and may not be apparent to the registrar.
Since only actual known dates are entered in interoperable date items, flags are used to explain the reason the date field is blank.

Code	Description
10	No information, unknown if an inpatient
11	Patient was never an inpatient
12	Patient was inpatient but the date is unknown
Blank	Full or partial date recorded