Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269549 |
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| Definition: | The urgency of the patient's need for medical and nursing care. |
| Context: | Emergency department care: Required to provide data for analysis of emergency department processes. |
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode |
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| 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. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National reference group for non-admitted patient data development, 2001-02 |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Triage category |
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| Definition: | The classification of a patient assigned according to the urgency of their need for medical and/or nursing care. |
| Context: | Emergency department care |
| Property group: | Service/care urgency |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
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