Emergency department visit type code N
Value Domain Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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| METEOR identifier: | 474111 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
| Definition: | A code set representing the types of emergency department visits. |
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Emergency presentation: attendance for an actual or suspected condition which is sufficiently serious to require acute unscheduled care. |
| 2 | Return visit, planned: presentation is planned and is a result of a previous emergency department presentation or return visit. | |
| 3 | Pre-arranged admission: a patient who presents at the emergency department for either clerical, nursing or medical processes to be undertaken, and admission has been pre-arranged by the referring medical officer and a bed allocated. | |
| 4 | Patient in transit: the emergency department is responsible for care and treatment of a patient awaiting transport to another facility. | |
| 5 | Dead on arrival: a patient who is dead on arrival and an emergency department clinician certifies the death of the patient. | |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Emergency department visit type code N Health, Superseded 30/01/2012 Has been superseded by Emergency department visit type code N Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 |
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| Data elements implementing this value domain: | Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |