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

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termTriage category
METEOR identifier:Help on this term417470
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Definition:Help on this term

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 attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
0Dead on arrival on administration
1Resuscitation: immediate (within seconds)
2Emergency: within 10 minutes
3Urgent: within 30 minutes
4Semi-urgent: within 60 minutes
5Non-urgent: within 120 minutes
8Short stay bounce

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

It refers to [TriageCategoryRefId] field in Health Central.

Relational attributes

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Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, (Tasmanian) code N
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Tasmanian Emergency Department Data Set - 2016Tasmanian Health, Superseded 30/04/2020

DSS specific attributes +

Tasmanian Emergency Department Data Set - 2019Tasmanian Health, Superseded 30/04/2020

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation in Indicators:Help on this term
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, 2012Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016

Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016

Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016

Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Time until most admitted patients (90%) departed emergency department, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2016Tasmanian 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, 2016Tasmanian 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, 2016Tasmanian 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, 2017Tasmanian 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, 2017Tasmanian 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, 2017Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019

Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2018Tasmanian 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, 2018Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019

Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Total time (hours) spent by ambulance presentations in offload delay, 2018Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019

Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Ambulance offload delay - within 15 and 30 mins (all specified facilities), 2019Tasmanian 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), 2019Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019

Service Plan- Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department presentations who do not wait to be seen, 2019Tasmanian 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, 2012Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016

Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2013, KPI??-Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2013Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016

Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2014Tasmanian 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, 2016Tasmanian 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, 2016Tasmanian 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, 2017Tasmanian 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, 2017Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019

Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of emergency department did not wait presentations, 2018Tasmanian 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, 2018Tasmanian 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), 2019Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019

Service Plan- Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department presentations who do not wait to be seen, 2019Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019