Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269574 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Tasmanian Health, Standard 05/09/2016 |
| Definition: | The intention of the responsible clinician at the time of the patient's admission to hospital or at the time the patient is placed on an elective surgery waiting list, to discharge the patient either on the day of admission or a subsequent date. |
| Context: | Admitted patient care: To assist in the identification and casemix analysis of planned same-day patients, that is those patients who are admitted with the intention of discharge on the same day. This is also a key indicator for quality assurance activities. |
Episode of admitted patient care—intended length of hospital stay
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: | Intended length of hospital stay |
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| Definition: | The expected duration of a stay in hospital. |
| Property group: | Service provision event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Collection and usage attributes
| Comments: | Information comparing the intended length of the episode of care and the actual length of the episode of care is considered useful for quality assurance and utilisation review purposes. |
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Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Episode of admitted patient care—intended length of hospital stay, code N Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
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