Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Element

Short name:

Date of triage

Synonymous names:

Triage date

METeOR identifier:

474189

Registration status:

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

Definition:

The date on which the patient is triaged, expressed as DDMMYYYY.

Context:

Emergency department care.

Data element concept attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Data element concept:

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date

METeOR identifier:

474187

Registration status:

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

Definition:

The date on which the patient is triaged.

Context:

Emergency department care.

Object class:

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode

Property:

Triage date

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Value domain:

Date DDMMYYYY

METeOR identifier:

270566

Registration status:

Community Services, Standard 01/03/2005
Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005
Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010
Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
Tasmanian Health, Draft 23/07/2012
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012
Indigenous, Draft 18/10/2012

Definition:

The day of a particular month and year.

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Date

Data type:

Date/Time

Format:

DDMMYYYY

Maximum character length:

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

This data element should not be completed for patients who have a Type of visit of 'Dead on arrival'.

Collection methods:

Collected in conjunction with the data element 'Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm'.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 30/01/2012

See also Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Health, Standard 30/01/2012, Tasmanian Health, Draft 14/09/2012, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012

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 *Conditional obligation:* This data item is to be recorded if the patient has one of the following nonemergency department stay - type of visit to emergency department values reported: 1 - Emergency department presentation; 2 - Return visit, planned; 3 - Pre-arranged admission; 4 - Patient in transit.

Acute coronary syndrome (clinical) DSS Health, Standard 01/09/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This data element should only be collected for patients who presented to the emergency department for treatment related to acute coronary syndromes.

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 *Conditional obligation:* This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Emergency department presentation; Return visit, planned; Pre-arranged admission; Patient in transit.

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 *Conditional obligation:* This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Emergency department presentation; Return visit, planned; Pre-arranged admission; Patient in transit.

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 *Conditional obligation:* This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Emergency department presentation; Return visit, planned; Pre-arranged admission; Patient in transit.