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Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to hospital admission), total hours and minutes NNNN

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termEmergency department waiting time to admission
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270004
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Retired 02/04/2014
Definition:Help on this termThe time elapsed for each patient from presentation to the emergency department to admission to hospital.
Data Element Concept:Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to hospital admission)

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termTotal
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termNNNN
Maximum character length:Help on this term4
Unit of measure:Help on this termHour and minute

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

The format NNNN should be populated with valid values to represent the concept of hours and minutes. The first, second and fourth digits may be represented with values ranging from 0 to 9. The third digit may only be represented with values between 0 and 5.

For example: A value of 9 hours and 59 minutes is a valid response, and would be represented as 0959. However a value of 12 hours and 68 minutes would not be a valid response.

This value domain was previously represented with a format of HHMM.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this termCalculated from admission date and time minus date and time patient presents for those emergency department patients who are admitted.
Collection methods:Help on this termTo be collected on patients presenting to emergency department for unplanned care in public hospitals with emergency department and private hospitals providing contracted services for the public sector.
Comments:Help on this term

This is a critical waiting times metadata item. It is used to examine the length of waiting time, for performance indicators and benchmarking. Information based on this metadata item will have many uses including to assist in the planning and management of hospitals and in health care research.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:Help on this termNational Health Data Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes PDFEmergency department waiting time to admission, version 1, Derived DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.6 KB) No registration status
Is formed using Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015
  • Health, Superseded 06/09/2018
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020
Is formed using Episode of admitted patient care—admission time, hhmm
  • Health, Superseded 05/10/2016
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020
Is formed using Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • Tasmanian Health, Incomplete 23/07/2012
Is formed using Health service event—presentation time, hhmm
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • Tasmanian Health, Incomplete 23/07/2012
Is formed using Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—patient departure status, code N
  • Health, Superseded 24/03/2006
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