Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-2009
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Data Set Specification
METeOR identifier:
363530
Registration status:
Health, Standard 05/02/2008
DSS type:
National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:
This metadata set is nationally mandated for collection and reporting.
The scope of this National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is non-admitted patients registered for care in emergency departments in selected public hospitals that are classified as either Peer Group A or B in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Australian Hospital Statistics publication from the preceding financial year. The care provided to patients in emergency departments is, in most instances, recognised as being provided to 'non-admitted' patients. Patients being treated in emergency departments may subsequently become 'admitted'. The care provided to non-admitted patients who are treated in the emergency department prior to being admitted is included in this NMDS.
Care provided to patients who are being treated in an emergency department site as an admitted patient (e.g. in an observation unit, short-stay unit, 'emergency department ward' or awaiting a bed in an admitted patient ward of the hospital) are excluded from the emergency department care NMDS since the recording of the care provided to these patients is part of the scope of the Admitted patient care NMDS.
Collection and usage attributes
Statistical unit:
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episodes.
Collection methods:
National reporting arrangements
State and territory health authorities provide the NMDS data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis within 3 months of the end of a reporting period.
The Institute and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing will agree on a data quality and timeliness protocol. Once cleaned, a copy of the data and a record of the changes made will be forwarded by the Institute to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. A copy of the cleaned data for each jurisdiction should also be returned to that jurisdiction on request.
Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated
Financial years, ending 30 June each year. Extraction of data for a financial year should be based on the date of the end of the non-admitted emergency department service episode.
Implementation start date:
01/07/2008
Comments:
Scope links with other metadata sets
Episodes of care for admitted patients are reported through the Admitted patient care NMDS.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:
National Health Information Management Principal Committee
