Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	273053
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 07/12/2005
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	This metadata set is nationally mandated for collection and reporting. The scope of this National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is non-admitted patients registered for care in emergency departments in selected public hospitals that are classified as either Peer Group A or B in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Australian Hospital Statistics publication from the preceding financial year. The care provided to patients in emergency departments is, in most instances, recognised as being provided to 'non-admitted' patients. Patients being treated in emergency departments may subsequently become 'admitted'. The care provided to non-admitted patients who are treated in the emergency department prior to being admitted is included in this NMDS. Care provided to patients who are being treated in an emergency department site as an admitted patient (e.g. in an observation unit, short-stay unit, 'emergency department ward' or awaiting a bed in an admitted patient ward of the hospital) are excluded from the emergency department care NMDS since the recording of the care provided to these patients is part of the scope of the Admitted patient care NMDS.

Collection and usage attributes
Statistical unit:	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episodes.
Collection methods:	National reporting arrangements State and territory health authorities provide the NMDS data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis within 3 months of the end of a reporting period. The Institute and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing will agree on a data quality and timeliness protocol. Once cleaned, a copy of the data and a record of the changes made will be forwarded by the Institute to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. A copy of the cleaned data for each jurisdiction should also be returned to that jurisdiction on request. Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated Financial years, ending 30 June each year. Extraction of data for a financial year should be based on the date of the end of the non-admitted emergency department service episode.
Comments:	Scope links with other metadata sets Episodes of care for admitted patients are reported through the Admitted patient care NMDS.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Health Information Group
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS Health, Superseded 24/03/2006 Is re-engineered from Non-admitted patient emergency department care, NMDS, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (123.5 KB) No registration status

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Episode of care—funding eligibility indicator (Department of Veterans' Affairs), code N	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY	Mandatory	1
-	Health service event—presentation time, hhmm	Mandatory	1
-	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—patient departure status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—transport mode (arrival), code N	Mandatory	1
-	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to service delivery), total minutes NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Patient—compensable status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2004) NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* This field must not be null. National Minimum Data Sets: For the provision of State and Territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this field must: be less than or equal to Admission date, Date patient presents or Service contact date be consistent with diagnoses and procedure codes, for records to be grouped.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—Indigenous status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—sex, code N	Mandatory	1