Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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| METEOR identifier: | 474114 |
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| Definition: | The treatment or care between when a patient presents at an emergency department and when the non-admitted patient emergency department clinical care ends. |
| Context: | Emergency department care. |
| Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Includes patients who do not wait for treatment once registered or triaged, and those who are dead on arrival. Both a non-admitted patient emergency department service episode and an admitted patient episode of care should be recorded for patients who subsequently undergo a formal admission. The end of the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode should indicate the commencement of the admitted episode of care, if applicable. A non-admitted patient emergency department service episode ends when either the patient is admitted or, if the patient is not to be admitted, when the patient's emergency department non-admitted clinical care is recorded as completed, or when they are recorded as having left at their own risk. |
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| Comments: | This metadata item has been defined to support the national minimum data set for Non-admitted patient emergency department care. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National reference group for non-admitted patient data development, 2001-02 |
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