Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Triage category |
| METEOR identifier: | 646659 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 |
| 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 |
| Value Domain: | Triage category code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Resuscitation: immediate (within seconds) |
| 2 | Emergency: within 10 minutes | |
| 3 | Urgent: within 30 minutes | |
| 4 | Semi-urgent: within 60 minutes | |
| 5 | Non-urgent: within 120 minutes | |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| 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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Source and reference attributes | |
| 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 |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 See also Emergency service stay—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Non-admitted patient emergency department care NBEDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 |
| Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Numerator
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020
Used as Disaggregation
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020 |