Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269529 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/04/2021 |
| Definition: | Number of leave periods in a hospital stay (excluding one-day leave periods for admitted patients). Leave period is a temporary absence from hospital, with medical approval for a period no greater than seven consecutive days. |
Episode of admitted patient care—number of leave periods
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Episode of admitted patient care |
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| Definition: | The period of admitted patient care between a formal or statistical admission and a formal or statistical separation, characterised by only one care type. |
| Context: | Admitted patient care. |
| Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This treatment and/or care provided to a patient during an episode of care can occur in hospital and/or in the person's home (for hospital-in-the-home patients). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | Health Data Standards Committee. |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Number of leave periods |
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| Definition: | A count of discrete periods of formal absence during an episode of care. |
| Property group: | Exit/leave from service event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Episode of admitted patient care—number of leave periods, total N[N] Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/04/2021 |
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