Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
|---|---|
| Short name: | Type of visit to emergency department |
| METEOR identifier: | 270362 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 |
| Definition: | The reason the patient presents to an emergency department, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department |
| Value Domain: | Emergency department visit type code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Emergency presentation: attendance for an actual or suspected condition which is sufficiently serious to require acute unscheduled care. |
| 2 | Return visit, planned: presentation is planned and is a result of a previous emergency department presentation or return visit. | |
| 3 | Pre-arranged admission: a patient who presents at the emergency department for either clerical, nursing or medical processes to be undertaken, and admission has been pre-arranged by the referring medical officer and a bed allocated. | |
| 4 | Patient in transit: the emergency department is responsible for care and treatment of a patient awaiting transport to another facility. | |
| 5 | Dead on arrival: a patient who is dead on arrival at the emergency department. | |
Type of visit to emergency department, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf