Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—patient departure status, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency department departure status |
| METEOR identifier: | 270001 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 24/03/2006 |
| Definition: | The status of the patient at the end of the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—patient departure status |
| Value Domain: | Emergency department patient departure status code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Admitted to this hospital (including to units or beds within the emergency department) |
| 2 | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - departed without being admitted or referred to another hospital | |
| 3 | Referred to another hospital for admission | |
| 4 | Did not wait to be attended by a health care professional | |
| 5 | Left at own risk after being attended by a health care professional but before the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode was completed | |
| 6 | Died in emergency department as a non-admitted patient | |
| 7 | Dead on arrival, not treated in emergency department | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | CODE 2 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - departed without being admitted or referred to another hospital This code includes patients who departed under their own care, under police custody and under the care of a residential aged care facility or other carer. Code 2 excludes those who died in the emergency department, which should be coded to Code 6. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | 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. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National reference group for non-admitted patient data development, 2001-02 |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Is used in the formation of Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to hospital admission), total hours and minutes NNNN Health, Retired 02/04/2014 Is re-engineered from  Emergency department departure status, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (16.7 KB)No registration status |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS Health, Superseded 24/03/2006 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 |