Episode of admitted patient care—length of stay (including leave days), total N[NN]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Length of stay (including leave days) |
| METEOR identifier: | 329889 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 04/07/2007 |
| Definition: | The total length of stay (LOS) of a patient, including leave days, measured in days. |
| Data Element Concept: | Episode of admitted patient care—length of stay (including leave days) |
| Value Domain: | Total days N[NN] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Total | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N[NN] | |
| Maximum character length: | 3 | |
| Unit of measure: | Day | |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Formula: LOS (including leave days) = separation date - admission date Total LOS is calculated by subtracting the patient's date of admission from their date of separation. It includes contract days and leave days. For babies born in hospital: 1) only calculate the total LOS of live births and 2) their admission date is the same as their date of birth. A same-day patient should be allocated a length of stay of one day. Total LOS relates to the episode of care associated with the birth. Babies born before arrival and still births are not within scope of this data element and should not have a total length of stay reported. |
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| Comments: | All admitted patient episodes of care where it is required to know the total LOS in hospital (including leave days). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Data Development Committee |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of admitted patient care—length of stay (including leave days), total N[NN] Health, Superseded 04/07/2007 Is formed using Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020 Is formed using Episode of admitted patient care—separation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 |
| Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Numerator
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