Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Time of triage
Synonymous names:	Triage time
METEOR identifier:	684609
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/03/2023
Definition:	The time at which a non-admitted patient in an emergency department is triaged, expressed as hhmm.
Context:	Emergency department care.
Data Element Concept:	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time
Value Domain:	Time hhmm

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Time
Data type:	Date/Time
Format:	hhmm
Maximum character length:	4

Source and reference attributes
Reference documents:	Standards Australia 2007. AS ISO 8601-2007 Data elements and interchange formats—Information interchange—Representation of dates and times. Sydney: Standards Australia.

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	This data element should not be completed for patients who have a Type of visit of 'Dead on arrival'.
Collection methods:	Collected in conjunction with the data element 'Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY'.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 25/05/2020 Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 See also Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/03/2023
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Emergency department presentation related data elements (TDLU) cluster Tasmanian Health, Superseded 13/11/2023 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NBEDS 2018-19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit to emergency department permissible values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Non-admitted patient emergency department care NBEDS 2019–20 Health, Retired 19/11/2019 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit to emergency department permissible values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2018-19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Conditional obligation: This data item is to be recorded for patients who have one of the following Type of visit values recorded: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Conditional obligation: This data item is required to be reported if the value forEmergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N is recorded as: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 Conditional obligation: This data item is required to be reported if the value forEmergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N is recorded as: Code 1 - Emergency presentation Code 2 - Return visit, planned Code 3 - Pre-arranged admission Tasmanian Emergency Department Data Set - 2020 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/11/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Tasmanian Emergency Department Data Set - 2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/11/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 Conditional obligation: Required if episode of care meets the data elements criteria Tasmanian Emergency Department Data Set - 2022 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/11/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Conditional obligation: If applicable