Emergency department non-admitted patient service episode end status code N
Value Domain Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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| METEOR identifier: | 474155 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
| Definition: | A code set representing the status of a patient at the end of a non-admitted patient emergency department service episode. |
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Admitted to this hospital (either short stay unit, hospital-in-the-home or non-emergency department hospital ward) |
| 2 | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - departed without being admitted or referred to another hospital | |
| 3 | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - referred to another hospital for admission | |
| 4 | Did not wait to be attended by a health care professional | |
| 5 | Left at own risk after being attended by a health care professional but before the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode was completed | |
| 6 | Died in emergency department as a non-admitted patient | |
| 7 | Dead on arrival, emergency department clinician certified the death of the patient | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | CODE 1 Admitted to this hospital (either short stay unit, hospital-in-the-home or non-emergency department hospital ward) This code includes patients who are admitted to this hospital and subsequently die before leaving the emergency department. CODE 2 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - departed without being admitted or referred to another hospital This code includes patients who departed under their own care, under police custody, under the care of a residential aged care facility or other carer. This code excludes those who died in the emergency department as a non-admitted patient. Such instances should be coded to Code 6. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Emergency department non-admitted patient service episode end status code N Health, Superseded 30/01/2012 Has been superseded by Emergency department non-admitted patient service episode end status code N Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 |
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| Data elements implementing this value domain: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |