Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Time of triage
Synonymous names:	Triage time
METEOR identifier:	474193
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 25/05/2020
Definition:	The time at which the patient is triaged, expressed as hhmm.
Context:	Emergency department care.
Data Element Concept:	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Time
Data type:	Date/Time
Format:	hhmm
Maximum character length:	4
Source and reference attributes
Reference documents:	ISO 8601:2000 : Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates and times
Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	This data element should not be completed for patients who have a Type of visit of 'Dead on arrival'.
Collection methods:	Collected in conjunction with the data element 'Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY'.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Health, Superseded 30/01/2012 Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/03/2023 See also Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 25/05/2020
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Activity based funding: Emergency department care DSS 2013-2014 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 01/03/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded if the patient has one of the following nonemergency department stay - type of visit to emergency department values reported: 1 - Emergency department presentation; 2 - Return visit, planned; 3 - Pre-arranged admission; 4 - Patient in transit. Acute coronary syndrome (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: This data element should only be collected for patients who presented to the emergency department for treatment related to acute coronary syndromes. Acute coronary syndrome (clinical) NBPDS 2013- Health, Standard 02/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 DSS specific information: This data element should only be collected for patients who presented to the emergency department for treatment related to acute coronary syndromes. Emergency department care activity based funding DSS 2012-2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 31/10/2012 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Emergency department presentation; Return visit, planned; Pre-arranged admission; Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care DSS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 04/02/2015 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation; Code 2 - Return visit, planned; Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission; Code 4 - Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care DSS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 02/12/2015 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation; Code 2 - Return visit, planned; Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission; Code 4 - Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care NBEDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit to emergency department permissible values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Non-admitted patient emergency department care NBEDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit to emergency department permissible values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Emergency department presentation; Return visit, planned; Pre-arranged admission; Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Emergency department presentation; Return visit, planned; Pre-arranged admission; Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation; Code 2 - Return visit, planned; Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission; Code 4 - Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation; Code 2 - Return visit, planned; Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission; Code 4 - Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation; Code 2 - Return visit, planned; Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission; Code 4 - Patient in transit. Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation; Code 2 - Return visit, planned; Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission; Code 4 - Patient in transit.