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Overnight-stay patient

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term327256
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 05/09/2016
Definition:Help on this termA patient who, following a clinical decision, receives hospital treatment for a minimum of one night, i.e. who is admitted to and separated from the hospital on different dates.
Context:Help on this termAdmitted patient care

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

An overnight-stay patient in one hospital cannot be concurrently an overnight-stay patient in another hospital, unless they are receiving contracted care. If not under a hospital contract, a patient must be separated from one hospital and admitted to the other hospital on each occasion of transfer.

An overnight-stay patient of a hospital (originating hospital) who attends another hospital (the destination hospital) on a contracted basis is to be regarded by the originating hospital as an overnight-stay patient, as if the patient had not left for contracted hospital care.

Treatment provided to an intended same-day patient who is subsequently classified as an overnight-stay patient is regarded as part of the overnight episode.

A non-admitted (emergency/outpatient) service provided to a patient who is subsequently classified as an admitted patient shall be regarded as part of the admitted episode. Any occasion of service should be recorded and identified as part of the admitted patient's episode of care.

Patients who leave of their own accord, die or are transferred on their first day in hospital are not overnight-stay patients.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:Help on this term

National Health Data Committee.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes PDFOvernight-stay patient, version 3, DEC, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.1 KB) No registration status
Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Episode of admitted patient care—length of stay (excluding leave days)
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 05/09/2016
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
Establishment—number of patient days under infection surveillance monitoring, total days N[N(7)]
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Establishment—number of patient days, total N[N(7)]
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Healthcare-associated infections NBEDS 2016-
  • Health, Superseded 10/06/2022
Healthcare-associated infections NBEDS 2021–
  • Health, Standard 10/06/2022
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