Emergency department stay—ambulance offload delay

Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	440535
Registration status:	Tasmanian Health, Standard 09/12/2016
Definition:	Ambulance offload delay occurs when a patient arrives at an emergency department and is triaged but remains under the care of an ambulance crew until the emergency department takes the responsibility for the care of the patient.
Context:	Emergency department care

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Emergency department stay
METEOR identifier:	472757
Registration status:	ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 22/12/2011 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/12/2016
Definition:	The period between when a patient presents at an emergency department and when that person is recorded as having physically departed the emergency department.
Context:	Emergency department care.
Specialisation of:	Service/care event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:	Ambulance offload delay
METEOR identifier:	440532
Registration status:	Tasmanian Health, Standard 09/12/2016
Definition:	Ambulance offload delay occurs when a patient arrives at an emergency department and is triaged but remains under the care of an ambulance crew until the emergency department takes the responsibility for the care of the patient.
Property group:	Performance indicators

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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Emergency department stay—ambulance offload delay, total minutes NNNNN Tasmanian Health, Standard 09/12/2016