Hospital
Object Class Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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| METEOR identifier: | 268971 |
| Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
| Definition: | A health care facility established under Commonwealth, state or territory legislation as a hospital or a free-standing day procedure unit, and authorised to provide treatment and/or care to patients. |
| Context: | Admitted patient care, admitted patient palliative care, admitted patient mental health care and public hospital establishments. |
| Specialisation of: | Organisation |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | A hospital thus defined may be located at one physical site or may be a multicampus hospital. A multicampus hospital treats movements of patients between sites as ward transfers. For the purposes of these definitions, the term hospital includes satellite units managed and staffed by the hospital. This definition includes, but is not limited to, hospitals as recognised under Australian Health Care Agreements. Residential aged care services as approved under the National Health Act 1953 (Cwlth) or equivalent state legislation are excluded from this definition. This definition includes entities with multipurpose facilities (e.g. those which contain both recognised and non-recognised components). |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Is re-engineered from  Hospital, version 1, DEC, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (13.8 KB)No registration status |
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| Data Element Concepts implementing this Object Class: | Hospital—contract role Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Hospital—contract type Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Hospital—hospital identifier Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Health, Standard 07/12/2011 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 Hospital—hospital name Health, Standard 07/12/2011 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Hospital—hospital peer group National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Hospital—Local Hospital Network identifier Health, Standard 07/02/2013 Hospital—peer group Health, Qualified 23/03/2023 |