Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2007-08
Data Set Specification Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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| METEOR identifier: | 349836 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 |
| DSS type: | National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) |
| Scope: | This metadata set is nationally mandated for collection and reporting. The scope of this National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is non-admitted patients registered for care in emergency departments in selected public hospitals that are classified as either Peer Group A or B in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Australian Hospital Statistics publication from the preceding financial year. Care provided to patients who are being treated in an emergency department site as an admitted patient (e.g. in an observation unit, short-stay unit, 'emergency department ward' or awaiting a bed in an admitted patient ward of the hospital) are excluded from the emergency department care NMDS since the recording of the care provided to these patients is part of the scope of the Admitted patient care NMDS. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Statistical unit: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episodes. |
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| Collection methods: | National reporting arrangements State and territory health authorities provide the NMDS data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis within 3 months of the end of a reporting period. The Institute and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing will agree on a data quality and timeliness protocol. Once cleaned, a copy of the data and a record of the changes made will be forwarded by the Institute to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. A copy of the cleaned data for each jurisdiction should also be returned to that jurisdiction on request. Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated Financial years, ending 30 June each year. Extraction of data for a financial year should be based on the date of the end of the non-admitted emergency department service episode. |
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| Comments: | Scope links with other metadata sets Episodes of care for admitted patients are reported through the Admitted patient care NMDS. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Management Principal Committee |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS Health, Superseded 23/10/2006 Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10 Health, Superseded 22/12/2009 |