Emergency department stay

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Object Class
METeOR identifier:	322591
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 22/12/2011
Definition:	The period between when a patient presents at an emergency department and when that person departs.
Context:	Emergency department care.
Specialisation of:	Service episode
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Emergency department stay Health, Standard 22/12/2011, Tasmanian Health, Draft 14/09/2012, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012
Data Element Concepts implementing this Object Class:	Emergency department stay—physical departure date Health, Superseded 17/04/2012 Emergency department stay—physical departure time Health, Superseded 22/12/2011