Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Triage category |
| METEOR identifier: | 646659 |
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| Definition: | The urgency of the patient's need for medical and nursing care as assessed at triage, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | Emergency department care. |
| Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Collection methods: | This triage classification is to be used in the emergency departments of hospitals. Patients will be triaged into one of five categories on the Australasian Triage Scale according to the triageur's response to the question: 'This patient should wait for medical care no longer than ...?'. The triage category is allocated by an experienced registered nurse or medical practitioner. If the triage category changes, both triage categories can be captured, but the original category must be reported in this data element. A triage category should not be assigned for patients who have a Type of visit of 'Dead on arrival, emergency department clinician certified the death of the patient'. | ||||||||||||
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| Origin: | Australasian Triage Scale, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine | ||||||||||||
| Reference documents: | Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2013. Policy on the Australasian Triage Scale (P06). Melbourne: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Viewed 5 August 2016, http://acem.org.au/getattachment/693998d7-94be-4ca7-a0e7-3d74cc9b733f/Policy-on-the-Australasian-Triage-Scale.aspx Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2016. Guidelines on the implementation of the Australasian Triage Scale in Emergency Department (G24). Melbourne: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Viewed 20 September 2016, http://acem.org.au/getattachment/4320524e-ad60-4e7c-a96d-bdf90cd7966c/G24-Implementation-of-the-Australasian-Triage-Scal.aspx | ||||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
See also Emergency service stay—triage category, code N
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