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DELSA/ELSA/WD/HTP(2008)1Exclude infants:• With a subdural or cerebral haemorrhage (subgroup of birth trauma coding) and any diagnosiscode of pre-term infant (denoting birth weight of less than 2,500 grams and less than 37 weeksgestation or 34 weeks gestation or less).• With injury to skeleton and any diagnosis code of osteogenesis imperfecta.Denominator:70. All liveborn births (newborns).71. The definition of newborn is any neonate with either:1) A diagnosis code for an in-hospital liveborn birth or2) An admission type of newborn, age in days at admission equal to zero, and not an ICD-9-CMdiagnosis code for an out-of-hospital birth.72. A neonate is defined as any discharge with age in days at admission between zero and 28 days(inclusive). If age in days is missing, then a neonate is defined as any DRG in MDC 15 (ICD-10-WHOcode list in Annex 2 - Code List M-4) and an admission type of newborn, or a diagnosis code for an inhospitalliveborn birth. Another option for identification of an in hospital birth may be the age in days atadmission is 0 and the admission type is not transferred from another acute care facility.See Annex 1 - Code List C-11 for ICD-9-CM subdural or cerebral haemorrhage diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List W-11 for ICD-10-WHO subdural or cerebral haemorrhage diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List C-12 for ICD-9-CM preterm infant diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List W-12 for ICD-10-WHO preterm infant diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List C-13 for ICD-9-CM injury to skeleton diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List W-13 for ICD-10-WHO injury to skeleton diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List C-14 for ICD-9-CM osteogenesis imperfecta diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List W-14 for ICD-10-WHO osteogenesis imperfecta diagnosis codesSee Annex 1 - Code List C-15 for ICD-9-CM newborn in hospital live birth codesSee Annex 1 - Code List W-15 for ICD-10-WHO newborn in hospital live birth codesSee Annex 1 - Code List C-16 for ICD-9-CM newborn out of hospital codesSee Annex 1 - Code List W-16 for ICD-10-WHO newborn out of hospital codes47