Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Element

Short name:

Length of non-admitted patient emergency department service episode

METeOR identifier:

474181

Registration status:

Health, Standard 30/01/2012
Tasmanian Health, Draft 14/09/2012
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012

Definition:

The amount of time, measured in minutes, between when a patient presents at an emergency department, and when the non-admitted emergency department service episode has concluded.

Context:

Emergency department care.

Data Element Concept:

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Total

Data type:

Number

Format:

NNNNN

Maximum character length:

Unit of measure:

Minute (m)

Data element attributes

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

National reference group for non-admitted patient data development, 2001-02

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Is formed using Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 22/12/2011, Tasmanian Health, Draft 14/09/2012, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012

Is formed using Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm Health, Standard 22/12/2011, Tasmanian Health, Draft 14/09/2012, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012

Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN Health, Superseded 30/01/2012

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Activity based funding: Emergency department care DSS 2013-2014 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2014

Emergency department care activity based funding DSS 2012-2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 31/10/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2012 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2013

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Standard 30/01/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2012 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2013

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Standardisation pending 13/12/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2014