Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Emergency department stay
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:	Type of visit to emergency department
Definition:	An indicator of the reason for arrival at an emergency department.
Property group:	Entry into service event

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department Health, Superseded 22/12/2011 Has been superseded by Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department Health, Standard 20/10/2021

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:

Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N Health, Superseded 30/01/2012 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, Tasmanian code N Tasmanian Health, Superseded 05/06/2020 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, Tasmanian code N[N] Tasmanian Health, Standard 05/06/2020