Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 646482 |
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| Definition: | The urgency of the patient's need for medical and nursing care. |
| Context: | Emergency service care: Required to provide data for analysis of emergency service processes. |
Emergency service stay—triage category
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Emergency service stay |
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| Definition: | The period between when a patient presents at an emergency service and when that person is recorded as having physically departed the emergency service. |
| Context: | Emergency service care. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Triage category |
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| Definition: | The classification of a patient assigned according to the urgency of their need for medical and/or nursing care. |
| Property group: | Service/care urgency |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Emergency service stay—triage category
Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Emergency service stay—triage category, code N
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