Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 447800 |
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| Definition: | A patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the number and types of patients treated in an emergency department. |
Emergency department care—urgency related group
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Emergency department stay |
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| 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: | Urgency related group |
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| Definition: | A resource utilisation classification scheme used to categorise episodes of emergency department care based on the urgency of a person's need for care, diagnosed condition and status by which they departed the emergency department. |
| Property group: | Service/care urgency |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
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Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
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Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Emergency department stay—urgency related group, URG (v1.2) code [X]N[N]
Emergency department stay—urgency related group, URG (v1.3) code [X]N[N]
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