Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269660 |
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| Definition: | A patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the number and types of patients treated in a hospital to the resources required by the hospital. |
Episode of admitted patient care—diagnosis related group
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: | Diagnosis related group |
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| Definition: | A resource utilisation classification based on diagnosed conditions, usage of hospital resources, and demographic characteristics of the patient. |
| Context: | The development of Australian refined diagnosis related groups has created a descriptive framework for studying hospitalisation. Diagnosis related groups provide a summary of the varied reasons for hospitalisation and the complexity of cases a hospital treats. Moreover, as a framework for describing the products of a hospital (that is, patients receiving services), they allow meaningful comparisons of hospitals' efficiency and effectiveness under alternative systems of health care provision. |
| Property group: | Service provision event |