Bacterial meningitis (Antimicrobial stewardship clinical care standard)

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	629062
Registration status:	Health, Standard 12/09/2016
Definition:	For the purposes of the Antimicrobial stewardship clinical care standard (ACSQHC 2014), bacterial meningitis is defined as inflammation of the meninges by a bacterium (bacterial m.).

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	For the purposes of the Indicator specification: antimicrobial stewardship clinical care standard, bacterial meningitis includes where Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 9th edn) ANN{.N[N]} or Episode of care—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 9th edn) ANN{.N[N]} is one of the following: [1] G00.x Bacterial meningitis, not elsewhere classified G01 Meningitis in bacterial diseases classified elsewhere. [1] Where 'x' indicates that all fourth and fifth character codes following the three-digit rubric given are included in the definition.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Reference documents:	ACSQHC (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care) 2014. Antimicrobial stewardship clinical care standard. Sydney: ACSQHC.
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Antimicrobial stewardship: 1a-Median time to first dose of antibiotics for patients with suspected bacterial meningitis, or for actual or suspected severe sepsis Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Retired 25/01/2022 Health, Standard 12/09/2016

Glossary Item Attributes