Establishment—outpatient clinic type, code N[N]

The nature of service provided by an organisational unit or organisational arrangement through which a hospital provides outpatient clinic services, as represented by a code.

In most cases, reference to the Tier 2 guide will be adequate to map a hospital's clinics to the data domain. If not, general principles for mapping existing clinics to the data domain should take account of (a) the nature of the specialty, (b) patient characteristics, e.g. age, and (c) the field of practice of the service provider.

In paediatric hospitals, the full range of clinic types should be used.

CODE 1     Allied Health

• Audiology.
• Clinical Pharmacology.
• Neuropsychology.
• Dietetics.
• Occupational therapy.
• Optometry.
• Orthoptics.
• Orthotics.
• Physiotherapy.
• Podiatry.
• Prosthetics.
• Psychology.
• Social work.
• Speech pathology.

Includes clinics specified in mapping list above run solely by these Allied Health (AH) professionals  Example: A speech Pathologist conducting a clinic with booked patients for speech pathology services.

Excludes services provided by AH professionals in clinics classified in codes 2-23. Example: a physiotherapist running a cardiac rehabilitation clinic is classified to the Cardiology Clinic (see code 5).

CODE 2     Dental

• Dental.

CODE 3     Gynaecology

• Gynaecology.
• Gynaecological oncology (excluding gynaecology oncology).
• Menopause.
• Assisted reproduction, infertility.
• Family planning.

CODE 4     Obstetrics

• Obstetrics.
• Childbirth education.
• Antenatal.
• Postnatal.

Excludes gestational diabetes (see code 6).

CODE 5     Cardiology

• Cardiac rehabilitation.
• ECG.
• Doppler.
• Cardiac stress test.
• Hypertension.
• Pacemaker.

Excludes cardiac catheterisation (see code 22).

CODE 6     Endocrinology

• Endocrine.
• Gestational diabetes.
• Thyroid.
• Metabolic.
• Diabetes.
• Diabetes education.

CODE 7     Oncology

• Oncology.
• Lymphoedema.
• Radiation oncology.

Excludes chemotherapy (see code 20).

Excludes gynaecological oncology (see code 3).

CODE 8     Respiratory

• Asthma.
• Asthma education.
• Respiratory; excludes tuberculosis (see code 10).
• Cystic Fibrosis.
• Sleep.
• Pulmonary.

CODE 9     Gastroenterology

• Gastroenterology.

Excludes endoscopy (see code 13).

CODE 10    Medical

• Aged care, geriatric, gerontology.
• Allergy.
• Anti-coagulant.
• Clinical Measurement; where clinical measurement services are specific to a specialty include with relevant specialty clinic type (see codes 1-23) e.g. urodynamic analysis is counted with Urology (see code 15).
• Dementia.
• Dermatology.
• Development disability.
• Epilepsy.
• Falls.
• General medicine.
• Genetic.
• Haematology, haemophilia.
• Hepatobiliary.
• Hyperbaric medicine.
• Immunology, HIV.
• Infectious diseases; Communicable diseases; Hep  B, C; includes tuberculosis.
• Men's Health.
• Metabolic bone.
• Nephrology, renal; excludes dialysis (see code 21).
• Neurology, neurophysiology.
• Occupational medicine.
• Other.
• Pain management
• Palliative.
• Refugee clinic.
• Rehabilitation; excludes cardiac rehabilitation (see code 5).
• Rheumatology.
• Sexual Health.
• Spinal.
• Stomal therapy.
• Transplants.
• Wound, Dressing clinic.

CODE 11    General practice/primary care

• General Practice, Primary Care.

Excludes Medicare billable patients; defined specialty general practice clinics only.

CODE 12    Paediatric

• Adolescent health.
• Neonatology.
• Paediatric medicine.

In paediatric hospitals the full range of service types should be used. That is, paediatric medical should be reported as medical and paediatric surgery should be reported as surgery.

CODE 13    Endoscopy

Includes all occasions of service to non admitted patients for endoscopy including cystoscopy, gastroscopy, oesophagoscopy, duodenoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, laryngoscopy, sigmoidoscopy.

Where one of these procedures is carried out in a ward or clinic classified elsewhere, for example in the emergency department, the occasion is to be included under endoscopy and related procedures, and to be excluded from the other category. Care must be taken to ensure procedures or admitted patients are excluded from this category.

CODE 14    Plastic surgery

• Craniofacial.
• Melanoma.
• Plastic surgery.

CODE 15    Urology

• Urology.

Includes urodynamic measurement and IVPs.

CODE 16    Orthopaedic surgery

• Fracture.
• Hand.
• Orthopaedics Surgery.
• Other.
• Scoliosis.
• Neck of femur.

CODE 17    Ophthalmology

• Ophthalmology.
• Cataract extraction.
• Lens insertion.

CODE 18    Ear, nose and throat

• Ear, nose and throat.
• Otitis media.
• Oral.

CODE 19    Pre-admission and pre-anaesthesia

• Pre-admission.
• Pre-anaesthesia.

CODE 20    Chemotherapy

Includes all forms of chemotherapy provided to non-admitted patients.

CODE 21    Dialysis

Includes renal dialysis education.

CODE 22    Surgery

• Cardiac.
• Vascular.
• Cardiac catheterisation.
• Colorectal.
• Upper GI surgery.
• General surgery.
• Neurosurgery.
• Other.
• Thoracic surgery.

CODE 23    Paediatric surgery

In paediatric hospitals the full range of service types should be used. That is, paediatric medicine should be reported as medical and paediatric surgery should be reported as surgery.

Data compiled from service or clinic activity records.

See also Establishment—number of occasions of service, total N[NNNNNN] Health, Superseded 04/07/2007

Has been superseded by Establishment—outpatient clinic type, code N[N] Health, Standard 04/07/2007

Outpatient care NMDS Health, Superseded 04/07/2007