Episode of admitted patient care—elected accommodation status, code N
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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Short name:![]() | Admitted patient election status |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 270044 |
Registration status:![]() |
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Definition:![]() | Accommodation chargeable status elected by a patient on admission, as represented by a code |
Data Element Concept: | Episode of admitted patient care—elected accommodation status |
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Representation class:![]() | Code | ||||||
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Data type:![]() | Number | ||||||
Format:![]() | N | ||||||
Maximum character length:![]() | 1 | ||||||
Permissible values:![]() |
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Collection and usage attributes | |||||||
Guide for use:![]() | CODE 1 Public patient: A person, eligible for Medicare, who, on admission to a recognised hospital or soon after:
CODE 2 Private patient: A person who, on admission to a recognised hospital or soon after:
Please see the various Commonwealth/State Health Care Agreements for definitions of patient(s) and patient services. | ||||||
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Collection and usage attributes | |||||||
Guide for use:![]() | At the time of, or as soon as practicable after admission to a public hospital, the patient must elect in writing to be treated as either
This item is independent of patient's hospital insurance status. Private includes private-single and private-shared. | ||||||
Collection methods:![]() | Commencing with Version 9 of the Dictionary, four separate data elements Admitted patient hospital stay—elected accommodation status, code N, Person—Medicare eligibility status, code N, Episode of care—treatment funding eligibility status (Department of Veterans' Affairs), code N and Patient—compensable status, code N - are recorded in the Dictionary. This is because each element relates to a separate concept and requires separate information to be reported. These data elements replace the previous data elements Patient accommodation eligibility status and Compensable status. | ||||||
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Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes ![]() Has been superseded by Episode of admitted patient care—patient election status, code N
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications:![]() All attributes + |
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