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Hospital—hospital identifier

Data Element Concept Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term404245
Registration status:Help on this term

Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023

Health, Standard 07/12/2011

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015

Definition:Help on this termA unique identifier for a hospital.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Hospital
Definition:Help on this term

A health care facility established under Commonwealth, state or territory legislation as a hospital or a free-standing day procedure unit, and authorised to provide treatment and/or care to patients.

Context:Help on this term

Admitted patient care, admitted patient palliative care, admitted patient mental health care and public hospital establishments.

Specialisation of:Help on this termOrganisation

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

A hospital thus defined may be located at one physical site or may be a multicampus hospital. A multicampus hospital treats movements of patients between sites as ward transfers.

For the purposes of these definitions, the term hospital includes satellite units managed and staffed by the hospital.

This definition includes, but is not limited to, hospitals as recognised under Australian Health Care Agreements.

Residential aged care services as approved under the National Health Act 1953 (Cwlth) or equivalent state legislation are excluded from this definition.

This definition includes entities with multipurpose facilities (e.g. those which contain both recognised and non-recognised components).

Source and reference attributes

Origin:Help on this term

National Health Data Committee

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Hospital identifier
Definition:Help on this termA sequence of characters which identify a hospital.
Property group:Help on this termIdentifier characteristics

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Hospital—hospital identifier, identifier N[NNNNNN]A

        Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023

Hospital—hospital identifier, X[X(19)]

        Health, Recorded 16/08/2023

Hospital—hospital identifier, XXXXX

        Health, Superseded 16/01/2020

        Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015

Hospital—hospital identifier, XXXXX

        Health, Standard 16/01/2020

Hospital—hospital identifier, XXXXX[XXXX]

        Health, Recorded 16/08/2023

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