Establishment—number of patient days under infection surveillance monitoring, total days N[N(7)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Patient days under surveillance |
METEOR identifier: | 559230 |
Registration status: | National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | The total number of patient bed days covered by the hospital's infection surveillance program. |
Data Element Concept: | Establishment—number of patient days under infection surveillance monitoring |
Value Domain: | Total days N[N(7)] |
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Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N[N(7)] | |
Maximum character length: | 8 | |
Unit of measure: | Day |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Patient bed days under surveillance is supplied for each reported hospital by the relevant state or territory. This value should only reflect those beds covered by the hospital's infection surveillance program. A day is measured from midnight to 23:59 hours. The following basic rules are used to calculate the number of patient days for overnight stay patients:
The following additional rules cover special circumstances and in such cases, override the basic rules:
When calculating total patient days for a specified period:
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Health Performance Authority |
Origin: | National Health Performance Authority |
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | National Health Performance Authority, Hospital Performance: National Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia Dataset 2012-13 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Superseded 09/04/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 National Health Performance Authority, Hospital Performance: National Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia Dataset 2013-14 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 |
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