Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, (Tasmanian) code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Triage category
METEOR identifier:	417470
Registration status:	Tasmanian Health, Superseded 25/05/2020
Definition:	The urgency of the patient's need for medical and nursing care as assessed at triage, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category
Value Domain:	Triage category (Tasmanian) code N

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Code
Data type:	Number
Format:	N
Maximum character length:	1
	Value	Meaning
Permissible values:	0	Dead on arrival on administration
	1	Resuscitation: immediate (within seconds)
	2	Emergency: within 10 minutes
	3	Urgent: within 30 minutes
	4	Semi-urgent: within 60 minutes
	5	Non-urgent: within 120 minutes
	8	Short stay bounce

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

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CODE 8 Short stay bounce

This code should now be used by all Tasmanian Emergency Departments.

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	Triage categories from 1 to 5 are sourced from the Australasian Triage Scale. Triage category 0 and 8 are used to record patient information for Tasmanian emergency departments internal use only. This enables recording of the episode so that the activity can be included or excluded from emergency department activity reporting, depending on requirement. This triage classification is to be used in the emergency departments of hospitals. Patients will be triaged into one of seven categories on the Tasmanian Triage Scale. If the initial triage category changes, both triage categories can be captured, but the initial triage category is used for reporting purposes.
Collection methods:	It refers to [TriageCategoryRefId] field in Health Central.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, (Tasmanian) code N Tasmanian Health, Superseded 06/11/2023
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Tasmanian Emergency Department Data Set - 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 30/04/2020 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 28/06/2017 Tasmanian Emergency Department Data Set - 2019 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 30/04/2020 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 28/06/2020
Implementation in Indicators:	Used as Numerator Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2012, KPI16-Percentage of all emergency department presentations who have physically left the emergency department within four hours, 2012 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of triage 1 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of triage 2 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Time until most admitted patients (90%) departed emergency department, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of patients with transfer of care completed within 15 and 30 minutes, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of triage 1 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of triage 2 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Time until most admitted patients (90%) departed emergency department, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, ACC 1-2, Emergency Department , Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, ACC3 - Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, EFF3-4, Emergency Department, Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017 ACC 1-2 - Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017, ACC3 - Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017, EFF3-4, Emergency Department - Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Ambulance offload delay - within 15 and 30 mins (all specified facilities), 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended time - Triage 1 and all triage categories (all specified facilities), 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 Service Plan- Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department presentations who do not wait to be seen, 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 Used as Disaggregation Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2012, KPI16-Percentage of all emergency department presentations who have physically left the emergency department within four hours, 2012 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of triage 1 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of triage 2 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of patients with transfer of care completed within 15 and 30 minutes, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of triage 1 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of triage 2 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, ACC 1-2, Emergency Department , Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, ACC3 - Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, EFF3-4, Emergency Department, Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017 ACC 1-2 - Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017, ACC3 - Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017, EFF3-4, Emergency Department - Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Ambulance offload delay - within 15 and 30 mins (all specified facilities), 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended time - Triage 1 and all triage categories (all specified facilities), 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 Service Plan- Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department presentations who do not wait to be seen, 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 Used as Denominator Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2012, KPI16-Percentage of all emergency department presentations who have physically left the emergency department within four hours, 2012 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of triage 1 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of triage 2 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2013 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of patients with transfer of care completed within 15 and 30 minutes, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of triage 1 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of triage 2 emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2014 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, ACC 1-2, Emergency Department , Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, ACC3 - Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017 ACC 1-2 - Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017, ACC3 - Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended time - Triage 1 and all triage categories (all specified facilities), 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 Service Plan- Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department presentations who do not wait to be seen, 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019