Emergency department stay—physical departure time, hhmm

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Superseded 30/01/2012

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Source and reference attributes

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

The value of the episode end status code should guide the selection of the value to be recorded in this field:

• If the patient is subsequently admitted to this hospital (either short stay unit, hospital-in-the-home or non-emergency department hospital ward), then record the time the patient leaves the emergency department to go to the admitted patient facility.
  • Patients admitted to any other ward or bed within the emergency department have not physically departed the emergency department until they leave the emergency department.
  • If the patient is admitted and subsequently dies before leaving the emergency department then record the time the body was removed from the emergency department.
• If the service episode is completed without the patient being admitted, then record the time the patient's emergency department non-admitted clinical care ended.
• If the service episode is completed and the patient is referred to another hospital for admission, then record the time the patient leaves the emergency department.
• If the patient did not wait, then record the time the patient leaves the emergency department or was first noticed as having left.
• If the patient left at their own risk, then record the time the patient left the emergency department or was first noticed as having left.
• If the patient died in the emergency department, then record the time the body was removed from the emergency department.
• If the patient was dead on arrival then record the time the body was removed from the emergency department. If an emergency department physician certified the death of the patient outside the emergency department, then record the time the patient was certified dead.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes