Number of healthcare-associated Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia patient episodes
Property Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Property |
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| METEOR identifier: | 585565 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 10/06/2022 |
| Definition: | A count of healthcare-associated Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia patient episodes reported during a specified reference period. |
| Property group: | Illness and/or Injury event |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | MSSA is an isolate of Staphylococcus aureus that is identified by a laboratory as being methicillin susceptible (ACSQHC unpublished). |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Reference documents: | ACSQHC (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care) unpublished. Endorsed amendments to the Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) Data set specification (DSS). Sydney: ACSQHC. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Number of healthcare-associated Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bloodstream infection patient episodes Health, Standard 10/06/2022 |
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