Urgency related groups

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Standard 06/09/2018
• Tasmanian Health, Standard 05/06/2020

Urgency related groups (URGs) provide a summary of the complexity and type of patients treated within an emergency department. Emergency department episodes of care are grouped into URGs based on:

• The disposition recorded at the end of the patient's emergency department stay. This is captured by the episode end status.
• The urgency of the patient's need for care. This is captured by the triage category.
• The nature of the patient's diagnosis. This is captured by the major diagnostic block.