Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Object Class
METEOR identifier:	268976
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 22/12/2011
Definition:	The treatment or care between when a patient presents at an emergency department and when the non-admitted patient emergency department treatment or care ends.
Context:	Emergency department care.
Specialisation of:	Service episode

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	Includes patients who do not wait for treatment once registered or triaged, and those who are dead on arrival at the emergency department. Both a non-admitted patient emergency department service episode and an admitted patient episode of care should be recorded for patients who subsequently undergo a formal admission. The end of the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode should indicate the commencement of the admitted episode of care, if applicable. A non-admitted patient emergency department service episode ends when either the patient is admitted or, if the patient is not to be admitted, when the patient is recorded as ready to leave the emergency department or when they are recorded as having left at their own risk.
Comments:	This metadata item has been defined to support the national minimum data set for Non-admitted patient emergency department care.

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Includes patients who do not wait for treatment once registered or triaged, and those who are dead on arrival at the emergency department.

Both a non-admitted patient emergency department service episode and an admitted patient episode of care should be recorded for patients who subsequently undergo a formal admission. The end of the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode should indicate the commencement of the admitted episode of care, if applicable.

A non-admitted patient emergency department service episode ends when either the patient is admitted or, if the patient is not to be admitted, when the patient is recorded as ready to leave the emergency department or when they are recorded as having left at their own risk.

Comments:

This metadata item has been defined to support the national minimum data set for Non-admitted patient emergency department care.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National reference group for non-admitted patient data development, 2001-02

Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode Health, Superseded 30/01/2012 Is re-engineered from Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode, version 1, DEC, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.4 KB) No registration status
Data Element Concepts implementing this Object Class:	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end date Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end time Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—patient departure status Health, Superseded 24/03/2006 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—presenting problem Health, Retired 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—principal diagnosis Health, Retired 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service commencement date Health, Standard 07/12/2005 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service commencement time Health, Standard 07/12/2005 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length Health, Superseded 23/05/2012 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—transport mode Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category Health, Superseded 29/01/2012 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to hospital admission) Health, Standard 01/03/2005

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode

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