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Newborn qualification status

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term327254
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 29/04/2021
Definition:Help on this term

Qualification status indicates whether the patient day within a newborn episode of care is either qualified or unqualified.

Context:Help on this term

Admitted patient care: To provide accurate information on care provided in newborn episodes of care through exclusion of unqualified patient days.

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

A newborn qualification status is assigned to each patient day within a newborn episode of care.

A newborn patient day is qualified if the infant meets at least one of the following criteria:

  • is the second or subsequent live born infant of a multiple birth, whose mother is currently an admitted patient,
  • is admitted to an intensive care facility in a hospital, being a facility approved by the Commonwealth Minister for the purpose of the provision of special care,
  • is admitted to, or remains in hospital without its mother.

A newborn patient day is unqualified if the infant does not meet any of the above criteria.

The day on which a change in qualification status occurs is counted as a day of the new qualification status.

If there is more than one qualification status in a single day, the day is counted as a day of the final qualification status for that day.

Comments:Help on this term

All babies born in hospital are admitted patients.

The newborn baby's qualified days are eligible for health insurance benefits purposes and the patient day count under the Australian Health Care Agreements. In this context, newborn qualified days are equivalent to acute days and may be denoted as such.

The days when a newborn baby does not meet these criteria are classified as unqualified (if they are nine days old or less) and should not be counted as patient days under the Australian Health Care Agreements and are not eligible for health insurance benefit purposes.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes PDFNewborn qualification status, version 2, DEC, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.1 KB) No registration status
Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Activity based funding: Admitted acute hospital care DSS 2013-2014
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 01/03/2013
Admitted acute care activity based funding DSS 2012-2013
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 31/10/2012
Admitted patient care NBEDS 2020-21
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2021
Admitted patient care NBEDS 2021-22
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Admitted patient care NBEDS 2022–23
  • Health, Superseded 20/12/2022
Admitted patient care NBEDS 2023–24
  • Health, Standard 20/12/2022
Admitted patient care NMDS
  • Health, Superseded 07/12/2005
Admitted patient care NMDS 2006-07
  • Health, Superseded 23/10/2006
Admitted patient care NMDS 2007-08
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2008
Admitted patient care NMDS 2008-09
  • Health, Superseded 04/02/2009
Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10
  • Health, Superseded 22/12/2009
Admitted patient care NMDS 2010-11
  • Health, Superseded 18/01/2011
Admitted patient care NMDS 2011-12
  • Commonwealth Department of Health, Candidate 16/07/2015
  • Health, Superseded 11/04/2012
Admitted patient care NMDS 2012-13
  • Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14
  • Health, Superseded 11/04/2014
Admitted patient care NMDS 2014-15
  • Health, Superseded 13/11/2014
Admitted patient care NMDS 2015-16
  • Health, Superseded 10/11/2015
Admitted patient care NMDS 2016-17
  • Health, Superseded 05/10/2016
Admitted patient care NMDS 2017-18
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
Admitted patient care NMDS 2018-19
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 12/12/2018
Admitted patient care NMDS 2019-20
  • Health, Superseded 18/12/2019
Admitted patient care NMDS 2020–21
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2021
Admitted patient care NMDS 2021–22
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Admitted patient care NMDS 2022–23
  • Health, Superseded 20/12/2022
Admitted patient care NMDS 2023–24
  • Health, Standard 20/12/2022
Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2013-14
  • Health, Superseded 15/10/2014
Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2014-15
  • Health, Superseded 04/02/2015
Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2015-16
  • Health, Superseded 19/11/2015
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2021–22
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2022–23
  • Health, Superseded 20/12/2022
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2023–24
  • Health, Standard 20/12/2022
Date of change to qualification status
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Episode of admitted patient care (newborn)—date of change to qualification status
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Episode of admitted patient care (newborn)—date of change to qualification status, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Establishment—number of hospital patient days including unqualified days for newborns
  • Health, Recorded 21/08/2014
Establishment—number of hospital patient days including unqualified days for newborns, total N[N(7)]
  • Health, Recorded 27/08/2014
Establishment—number of hospital patient days under Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia surveillance, total days N[NNNNN]
  • Health, Superseded 10/06/2022
Establishment—number of hospital patient days under Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance, total days N[NNNNN]
  • Health, Standard 10/06/2022
Healthcare-associated infections NBEDS 2016–2021
  • Health, Superseded 10/06/2022
Healthcare-associated infections NBEDS 2021–
  • Health, Standard 10/06/2022
Hospital care type code N[N]
  • Health, Superseded 13/11/2014
Hospital care type code N[N]
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 03/04/2019
Hospital care type code N[N]
  • Health, Standard 03/04/2019
Hospital care type code N[N].N
  • Commonwealth Department of Health, Candidate 16/07/2015
  • Health, Superseded 07/02/2013
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 22-Healthcare associated infections, 2014
  • Health, Superseded 14/01/2015
Number of hospital patient days including unqualified days for newborns
  • Health, Recorded 21/08/2014
Number of qualified days
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 29/04/2021
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