Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to hospital admission), total hours and minutes NNNN
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency department waiting time to admission |
| METEOR identifier: | 270004 |
| Registration status: |
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| Definition: | The 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: | Total |
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| Data type: | Number |
| Format: | NNNN |
| Maximum character length: | 4 |
| Unit of measure: | Hour and minute |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | 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: | Calculated from admission date and time minus date and time patient presents for those emergency department patients who are admitted. |
| Collection methods: | To 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: | 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: | National Health Data Committee |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes  Emergency department waiting time to admission, version 1, Derived DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.6 KB) No registration statusIs formed using Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY
Is formed using Episode of admitted patient care—admission time, hhmm
Is formed using Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
Is formed using Health service event—presentation time, hhmm
Is formed using Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—patient departure status, code N
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