Appointment—session type, code AAA
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Appointment session type code |
| Synonymous names: | APP_SESSION_TYPE_CODE |
| METEOR identifier: | 606294 |
| Registration status: | WA Health, Standard 01/06/2017 |
| Definition: | The code that distinguishes between appointments for individuals, groups and non-client events. |
| Data Element Concept: | Appointment—session type |
| Value Domain: | Appointment session type code AAA |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | String | |
| Format: | AAA | |
| Maximum character length: | 3 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | GRP | Group |
| IND | Individual | |
| NCE | Non-client event | |
| Supplementary values: | NSP | Not specified |
| UNK | Unknown | |
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| Guide for use: | This data element is used to determine a non-admitted patient service event. The following codes are in the scope of a non-admitted patient service event:
A non-client event does not have a patient present and is therefore not a non-admitted patient service event.
This data element is also used to derive the group session indicator. Records with a value of GRP for the appointment session type code will be assigned a value of 1 for the group session indicator. All other records will be assigned a value of 2 for the group session indicator.
In addition, this data element is used to calculate the total number of individual non-admitted patient service events and the total number of group session non-admitted patient service events. These items are reported nationally against the following data elements:
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Appointment—session type, code AAA WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Is used in the formation of Appointment—group session indicator, (derived) yes/no code N WA Health, Standard 01/06/2017 See also Establishment—number of group session non-admitted patient service events, total service events N[NNNNNN] Health, Standard 25/01/2018 See also Establishment—number of group session non-admitted patient service events, total service events N[NNNNNN] Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 See also Establishment—number of individual session non-admitted patient service events, total service events N[NNNNNN] Health, Standard 25/01/2018 See also Establishment—number of individual session non-admitted patient service events, total service events N[NNNNNN] Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 | ||||||
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | WA Health Non-Admitted Patient Activity and Wait List Data Collection (NAPAAWL DC) 2016-17 WA Health, Standard 30/05/2017 | ||||||