Clinical urgency code N
Value Domain Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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| METEOR identifier: | 598026 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/06/2015 |
| Definition: | A code set representing the clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires a procedure. |
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Procedures that are clinically indicated within 30 days |
| 2 | Procedures that are clinically indicated within 90 days | |
| 3 | Procedures that are clinically indicated within 365 days | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee |
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| Reference documents: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2013. National definitions for elective surgery urgency categories: proposal for the Standing Council on Health. Cat. no. HSE 138. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 30 July 2015. http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=60129543979 |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Clinical urgency code N Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
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| Data elements implementing this value domain: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 |