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Episode of admitted patient care—length of stay in intensive care unit, total hours NNNN

Data Element Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termLength of stay in intensive care unit
METEOR identifier:Help on this term471553
Registration status:Help on this term

Health, Superseded 05/02/2021

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012

Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/03/2023

Definition:Help on this term

The total number of hours an admitted patient has spent in an intensive care unit, expressed as a number.

Data Element Concept:Help on this termEpisode of admitted patient care—length of stay in intensive care unit
Value Domain:Help on this termTotal hours NNNN

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termTotal
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termNNNN
Maximum character length:Help on this term4
Unit of measure:Help on this termHour (h)

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this termTotal hours expressed as 0000, 0001, 0425 etc.

Data element attributes Help on this term

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

The total number of hours is to be reported by public hospitals that have either an approved level 3 adult intensive care unit or an approved paediatric intensive care unit.

Adult intensive care unit, level 3

The unit must be capable of providing complex, multisystem life support for an indefinite period; be a tertiary referral centre for patients in need of intensive care services and have extensive backup laboratory and clinical service facilities to support the tertiary referral role. It must be capable of providing mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal renal support services and invasive cardiovascular monitoring for an indefinite period; or care of a similar nature.

Paediatric intensive care unit

The unit must be capable of providing complex, multisystem life support for an indefinite period; be a tertiary referral centre for children needing intensive care; and have extensive backup laboratory and clinical service facilities to support this tertiary role. It must be capable of providing mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal renal support services and invasive cardiovascular monitoring for an indefinite period to infants and children less than 16 years of age; or care of a similar nature.

Collection methods:Help on this term

For the purposes of calculating the length of stay in an intensive care unit, begin the calculation with the following:

  • Arrival of the patient in the intensive care unit.

End the calculation with one of the following:

  • Discharge, death or transfer of a patient from the intensive care unit; or
  • Change of episode type.

Where an episode of admitted patient care involves more than one period spent in an intensive care unit, the total number of hours is to be reported for all periods during the episode of care.

The time spent in an operating theatre or in a coronary care unit is not counted.

Where there is a contracted service episode, Hospital A will report the total duration spent in the intensive care unit of Hospital B in addition to any length of time spent in Hospital A. Hospital B will only report the total time spent in the intensive care unit in Hospital B.

The total duration of hours reported should be rounded to the nearest hour. For example, if the total length of stay in the intensive care unit was 98 hours 45 minutes, report 0099 hours.

If the duration of length of stay in an intensive care unit is equal to or greater than 9999 hours, report 9999 hours.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Episode of admitted patient care—length of stay in intensive care unit, total hours NNNNN

        Health, Standard 05/02/2021

        Tasmanian Health, Standard 17/03/2023

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +
Activity based funding: Admitted acute hospital care DSS 2013-2014

        Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 01/03/2013

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
Conditional obligation: Only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.

Admitted acute care activity based funding DSS 2012-2013

        Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 31/10/2012

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
Conditional obligation: Only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14

        Health, Superseded 11/04/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
Conditional obligation: The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2014-15

        Health, Superseded 13/11/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2014
Implementation end date: 30/06/2015
Conditional obligation: The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2015-16

        Health, Superseded 10/11/2015

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2015
Implementation end date: 30/06/2016
Conditional obligation: The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.

Admitted patient care NMDS 2016-17

        Health, Superseded 05/10/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2016
Implementation end date: 30/06/2017
Conditional obligation:

The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.


Admitted patient care NMDS 2017-18

        Health, Superseded 25/01/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2017
Implementation end date: 30/06/2018
Conditional obligation:

The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.


Admitted patient care NMDS 2018-19

        Health, Superseded 12/12/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2018
Implementation end date: 30/06/2019
Conditional obligation:

The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.


Admitted patient care NMDS 2019-20

        Health, Superseded 18/12/2019

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2019
Implementation end date: 30/06/2020
Conditional obligation:

The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.


Admitted patient care NMDS 2020–21

        Health, Superseded 05/02/2021

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2020
Implementation end date: 30/06/2021
Conditional obligation:

The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.


Admitted patient care separation (discharge) related data elements (TDLU) cluster

        Tasmanian Health, Standard 18/05/2021


Tasmanian Admitted Patient Data Set - 2018

        Tasmanian Health, Superseded 12/04/2019

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2018
Implementation end date: 30/06/2019

Tasmanian Admitted Patient Data Set - 2019

        Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2019
Implementation end date: 30/06/2020

Tasmanian Admitted Patient Data Set - 2020

        Tasmanian Health, Standard 10/07/2020

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2020
Implementation end date: 30/06/2021

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