Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 474178 |
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| Definition: | The amount of time, between when a patient presents at an emergency department for an emergency department service episode, and when the non-admitted component of the emergency department service episode has concluded. |
| Context: | Emergency department care. |
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode |
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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. |
| 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 |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Service episode length |
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| Definition: | The length of time between patient presentation and service episode conclusion. |
| Property group: | Service provision event |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length
Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN
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