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Episode of admitted patient care—number of leave days, total N[NN]

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Data Element
Short name:Total leave days
METeOR identifier:270251
Registration status:Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Tasmanian Health, Draft 23/07/2012
Definition:Sum of the length of leave (date returned from leave minus date went on leave) for all periods within the hospital stay.
Data Element Concept:Episode of admitted patient care—number of leave days

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Total
Data type:Number
Format:N[NN]
Maximum character length:3
Unit of measure:Day

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

A day is measured from midnight to midnight.

The following rules apply in the calculation of leave days for both overnight and same-day patients:

  • The day the patient goes on leave is counted as a leave day.
  • The day the patient is on leave is counted as a leave day.
  • The day the patient returns from leave is counted as a patient day.
  • If the patient is admitted and goes on leave on the same day, this is counted as a patient day, not a leave day.
  • If the patient returns from leave and then goes on leave again on the same day, this is counted as a leave day.
  • If the patient returns from leave and is separated on the same day, the day should not be counted as either a patient day or a leave day.
Comments:It should be noted that for private patients in public and private hospitals, s.3 (12) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cwlth) currently applies a different leave day count, Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health HBF Circular 354 (31 March 1994). This metadata item was modified in July 1996 to exclude the previous differentiation between the psychiatric and other patients.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:National Health Data Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

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Is used in the formation of Episode of admitted patient care—diagnosis related group, code (AR-DRG v5.1) ANNA Health, Superseded 22/12/2009

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Is used in the formation of Episode of admitted patient care—major diagnostic category, code (AR-DRG v 6) NN Health, Standard 22/12/2009, Tasmanian Health, Draft 23/07/2012

Is used in the formation of Episode of admitted patient care—major diagnostic category, code (AR-DRG v 7) NN Health, Standardisation pending 13/03/2013

Is used in the formation of Episode of admitted patient care—major diagnostic category, code (AR-DRG v5.1) NN Health, Superseded 22/12/2009

Is used in the formation of Episode of care—number of psychiatric care days, total N[NNNN] Health, Standard 01/03/2005

Supersedes Total leave days, version 3, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.6 KB)

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DSS specific attributes +

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DSS specific attributes +

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