Episode of admitted patient care (newborn)—number of qualified days, total N[NNNN]

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Number of qualified days for newborns
METEOR identifier:	270033
Registration status:	Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019
Definition:	The number of qualified newborn days occurring within a newborn episode of care.
Data Element Concept:	Episode of admitted patient care (newborn)—number of qualified days

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Total

Data type:

Number

Format:

N[NNNN]

Maximum character length:

Unit of measure:

Day

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

The rules for calculating the number of qualified newborn days are outlined below. The number of qualified days is calculated with reference to the Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY, Episode of admitted patient care—separation date, DDMMYYYYand any Episode of admitted patient care (newborn)—date of change to qualification status, DDMMYYYY:

the date of admission is counted if the patient was qualified at the end of the day
the date of change to qualification status is counted if the patient was qualified at the end of the day
the date of separation is not counted, even if the patient was qualified on that day
the normal rules for calculation of patient days apply, for example in relation to leave and same day patients

The length of stay for a newborn episode of care is equal to the sum of the qualified and unqualified days.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Admitted patient care NMDS Health, Superseded 07/12/2005

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2005 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2006

Admitted patient care NMDS 2006-07 Health, Superseded 23/10/2006

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2006 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2007

Admitted patient care NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2007 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2008

Admitted patient care NMDS 2008-09 Health, Superseded 04/02/2009

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2008 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2009

Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10 Health, Superseded 22/12/2009

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2009 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2010

Admitted patient care NMDS 2010-11 Health, Superseded 18/01/2011

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2010 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2011

Admitted patient care NMDS 2011-12 Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015
Health, Superseded 11/04/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2011 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2012

Admitted patient care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2012 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2013

Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 11/04/2014

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2014

Admitted patient care NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2014 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2015 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of care for patients with a care type of newborn care.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 10/11/2015

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2015 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2016 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of care for patients with a care type of newborn care.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2016 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2017 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of care for patients with a care type of newborn care.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2017 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2018 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of care for patients with a care type of newborn care.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2018-19 ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
Health, Superseded 12/12/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2018 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2019 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of care for patients with a care type of newborn care.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2019-20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2019 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2020 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of care for patients with a care type of newborn care.

Implementation in Indicators:

Used as Numerator

Indigenous Better Cardiac Care measure: 6.1-Rates of hospitalisation for cardiac conditions, 2016 Health, Standard 17/08/2017