Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency department service episode end status |
| METEOR identifier: | 322641 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 |
| Definition: | The status of the patient at the end of the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status |
| Value Domain: | Emergency department non-admitted patient service episode end status code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Admitted to this hospital (including to units or beds within the emergency department) |
| 2 | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - departed without being admitted or referred to another hospital | |
| 3 | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - referred to another hospital for admission | |
| 4 | Did not wait to be attended by a health care professional | |
| 5 | Left at own risk after being attended by a health care professional but before the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode was completed | |
| 6 | Died in emergency department as a non-admitted patient | |
| 7 | Dead on arrival, not treated in emergency department | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | CODE 2 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - departed without being admitted or referred to another hospital This code includes patients who departed under their own care, under police custody, under the care of a residential aged care facility or other carer. Code 2 excludes those who died in the emergency department, which should be coded to Code 6. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
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