Episode of acute care

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	Acute care episode for admitted patients
METEOR identifier:	327230
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Definition:	An episode of acute care for an admitted patient is one in which the principal clinical intent is to do one or more of the following: manage labour (obstetric), cure illness or provide definitive treatment of injury, perform surgery, relieve symptoms of illness or injury (excluding palliative care), reduce severity of illness or injury, protect against exacerbation and/or complication of an illness and/or injury which could threaten life or normal functions, perform diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
Context:	Admitted patient care.

Source and reference attributes
Origin:	National Health Data Committee
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Acute care episode for admitted patients, version 1, DEC, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (12.2 KB) No registration status
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