Episode of admitted patient care—primary impairment type, code (AROC 2022) NN.NNNN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Primary impairment type (AROC) |
METEOR identifier: | 781319 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |
Definition: | The impairment which is the primary reason for the admission to an episode of care, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Episode of admitted patient care—primary impairment type |
Value Domain: | Impairment type code (AROC 2022) NN.NNNN |
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Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Impairment type code (AROC 2022) | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
Format: | NN.NNNN | |
Maximum character length: | 7 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | In the Australian National Subacute and Non‐acute Patient Classification (AN-SNAP) Version 5.0 Classification Manual (Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority, 2021), the rehabilitation branch uses AROC impairment codes to group episodes to a specific class. The impairment codes consist of groups of specific adult and paediatric impairment codes that are currently used.
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority |
Reference documents: | Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority, 2021, Australian National Subacute and Non-acute Patient Classification (AN-SNAP) Version 5.0 Classification Manual, viewed 28 July 2023, <https://www.ihacpa.gov.au/resources/australian-national-subacute-and-non-acute-patient-classification-version-50>. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of admitted patient care—primary impairment type, code (AROC 2012) NN.NNNN Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 Tasmanian Health, Standard 19/01/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2024–25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2024 Implementation end date: 30/06/2025 Conditional obligation: Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with Hospital service—care type, code N[N] recorded as:
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