Referral—referral receipt date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Referral date |
| METEOR identifier: | 270005 |
| Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Health, Recorded 13/05/2008 Tasmanian Health, Standard 23/11/2016 |
| Definition: | The date on which an agency receives a client referral from another party. |
| Data Element Concept: | Referral—referral receipt date |
| Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Date | |
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| Data type: | Date/Time | |
| Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
| Maximum character length: | 8 | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This metadata item should always be recorded as an 8 digit valid date comprising day, month and year. Year should always be recorded in its full 4 digit format. For days and months with a numeric value of less than 10, zeros should be used to ensure that the date contains the required 8 digits. For example if an agency receives a client referral on July 1 2000 the Referral—referral receipt date, DDMMYYYY should be recorded as 01072000 as specified in the representational layout. |
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| Collection methods: | Can be collected at initial referral of a client to an agency or at each referral, although this should be done consistently within a collection. Individual collections will also need to determine what constitutes a referral for their purposes (e.g. Is it only formal referrals that are considered, or are self-referral counted as a referral also etc). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee National Health Data Dictionary |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Is re-engineered from  Referral date, version 2, DE, NCSDD, NCSIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.8 KB)No registration status |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Tasmanian Non-admitted Patient Data Set - 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 08/05/2020 Tasmanian Non-admitted Patient Data Set - 2019 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 08/05/2020 |