Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 681414 |
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| Definition: | The impairment which is the primary reason for the admission to an episode of care. |
Episode of admitted patient care—primary impairment type
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Episode of admitted patient care |
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| Definition: | The period of admitted patient care between a formal or statistical admission and a formal or statistical separation, characterised by only one care type. |
| Context: | Admitted patient care. |
| Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This treatment and/or care provided to a patient during an episode of care can occur in hospital and/or in the person's home (for hospital-in-the-home patients). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | Health Data Standards Committee. |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Primary impairment type |
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| Definition: | The diagnosis, condition, illness or disability which describes the primary reason for admission to an episode of care. |
| Property group: | Physical wellbeing |
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of admitted patient care—primary impairment type
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Episode of admitted patient care—primary impairment type, code (AROC 2012) NN.NNNN
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