Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269578 |
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| Definition: | Identifies whether the hospital is the purchaser of hospital care (contracting hospital) or the provider of an admitted or non-admitted service (contracted hospital). |
| Context: | Admitted patient care and public hospital establishments. |
Hospital—contract role
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Hospital |
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| 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). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Contract role |
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| Definition: | The assigned responsibility under a contractual arrangement. |
| Property group: | Service provision event |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Hospital—contract role, code A
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