Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency department presentation date |
| METEOR identifier: | 651867 |
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| Definition: | The date on which the patient/client presents for the delivery of an emergency department service, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
| Data Element Concept: | Emergency department stay—presentation date |
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| Representation class: | Date | ||||||
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| Data type: | Date/Time | ||||||
| Format: | DDMMYYYY | ||||||
| Maximum character length: | 8 | ||||||
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| Guide for use: | The date of patient presentation at the emergency department is the date of first recorded contact with an emergency department staff member. The first recorded contact can be the commencement of the clerical registration or triage process whichever happens first. | ||||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||||
| Submitting organisation: | National Institution Based Ambulatory Model Reference Group | ||||||
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee | ||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
Supersedes Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
See also Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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