Establishment—hospice care unit indicator, yes/no code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Hospice care unit indicator
METEOR identifier:	619860
Registration status:	Health, Standard 03/11/2016
Definition:	An indicator of whether an establishment includes a facility dedicated to the provision of palliative care to terminally ill patients, as represented by a code.
Context:	Health services

Data element concept attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Data element concept:

Establishment—hospice care unit indicator

METEOR identifier:

619858

Registration status:

ACT Health (retired), Candidate 10/08/2018
Health, Standard 03/11/2016

Definition:

An indicator of whether an establishment includes a facility dedicated to the provision of palliative care to terminally ill patients.

Object class:

Establishment

Property:

Hospice care unit indicator

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Value domain:

Yes/no code N

METEOR identifier:

270732

Registration status:

ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018
Commonwealth Department of Health, Incomplete 22/01/2015
Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007
Disability, Standard 07/10/2014
Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010
Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012
Indigenous, Standard 16/09/2014
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/05/2020
WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015

Definition:

A code set representing 'yes' and 'no'.

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Boolean

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:

Essential to provide a broad picture of the availability of key specialised services by State and region and to assist with planning if services are over supplied in one region relative to another.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Origin:

National Health Data Committee

Relational attributes

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