Example of typical patient record (not a real patient) depicting the different approaches of assigning a diagnosis to CA and 28-day episodes
| Record no. | Patient ID | Admission date | Discharge date | Hospital | Transfer | 28-day readmission | CA no. | 28-day episode no. | Principal diagnosis | Diagnosis approach at the CA level | Diagnosis at 28-day episode level | |||
| Diagnosis hierarchy | Hospital hierarchy | First admission | Last admission | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 February 2005 | 2 February 2005 | Rural | 1 | 1 | Stable angina | NSTEMI | Unstable angina | Stable angina | NSTEMI | STEMI | ||
| 2 | 1 | 2 February 2005 | 4 February 2005 | Metropolitan tertiary | 1 | 1 | 1 | Unstable angina | ||||||
| 3 | 1 | 4 February 2005 | 6 February 2005 | Metropolitan non-tertiary | 1 | 1 | 1 | NSTEMI | ||||||
| 4 | 1 | 17 February 2005 | 18 February 2005 | Metropolitan tertiary | 1 | 2 | 1 | STEMI | STEMI | STEMI | STEMI | Other CHD | – | |
| 5 | 1 | 18 February 2005 | 22 February 2005 | Private | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Other CHD | |||||
| 6 | 1 | 10 October 2005 | 11 October 2005 | Metropolitan non-tertiary | 3 | 2 | Stable angina | NSTEMI | NSTEMI | Stable angina | NSTEMI | NSTEMI | ||
| 7 | 1 | 11 October 2005 | 14 October 2005 | Metropolitan tertiary | 1 | 3 | 2 | NSTEMI | ||||||
| 8 | 1 | 1 December 2005 | 2 December 2005 | Rural | 4 | 3 | Non-CHD | Stable angina | Stable angina | Non-CHD | Non-CHD | Stable angina | ||
| 9 | 1 | 2 December 2005 | 3 December 2005 | Metropolitan tertiary | 1 | 4 | 3 | Stable angina | ||||||
| 10 | 1 | 3 December 2005 | 5 December 2005 | Private | 1 | 4 | 3 | Non-CHD | ||||||
CA, contiguous admission; CHD, coronary heart disease; NSTEMI, non-STEMI; STEMI, ST elevation myocardial infarction.