Country-of-Birth and Ethnicity

Record a patient's country of birth and ethnicity on the Pt Details tab.

Record this information either from the patient's record or from the front screen of Clinical when creating a new patient record, or editing an existing record.

The 'Country of Birth' and 'Ethnicity' data in Clinical was obtained from the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS):

  • Country: 1269.0 - Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), 2011
  • Ethnicity: 1249.0 - Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG), 2011

    Details of the subset of data available to Clinical can be found here:

  • Country-of-Birth Codes
  • Ethnicity Codes