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Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termTriage category
METEOR identifier:Help on this term684872
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Definition:Help on this term

The urgency of a non-admitted patient's need for medical and/or nursing care in an emergency department, as assessed at triage, as represented by a code.

Context:Help on this term

Emergency department care.

Data Element Concept:Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
1Resuscitation: immediate (within seconds)
2Emergency: within 10 minutes
3Urgent: within 30 minutes
4Semi-urgent: within 60 minutes
5Non-urgent: within 120 minutes

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Collection methods:Help on this term

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'.

Comments:Help on this term

Required to provide data for analysis of emergency department processes.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:Help on this term

Australasian Triage Scale, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

Reference documents:Help on this term

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2013. Policy on the Australasian Triage Scale (P06). Melbourne: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Viewed 5 August 2016, https://acem.org.au/getmedia/484b39f1-7c99-427b-b46e-005b0cd6ac64/P06-Policy-on-the-ATS-Jul-13-v04.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, https://acem.org.au/getmedia/51dc74f7-9ff0-42ce-872a-0437f3db640a/G24_04_Guidelines_on_Implementation_of_ATS_Jul-16.aspx

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Emergency service stay—triage category, code N
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
See also Emergency service stay—triage category, code N
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
See also Emergency service stay—triage category, code N
  • Health, Superseded 18/12/2019
Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NBEDS 2018-19Health, 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 2019–20Health, 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 2018-19ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
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 2019–20Health, 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 2020–21Health, 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 2021–22Health, 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

Implementation in Indicators:Help on this term
Used as Numerator

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2019Health, Standard 09/04/2020

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2019Health, Standard 09/04/2020

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2020Health, Standard 13/10/2021

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2020Health, Standard 13/10/2021

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2019Health, Standard 09/04/2020

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2019Health, Standard 09/04/2020

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2020Health, Standard 13/10/2021

Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2020Health, Standard 13/10/2021

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2020Health, Standard 13/03/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2020Health, Standard 13/03/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2021Health, Standard 16/09/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2021Health, Standard 16/09/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2022Health, Standard 24/09/2021

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2020Health, Standard 13/03/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2020Health, Standard 13/03/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2021Health, Standard 16/09/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2021Health, Standard 16/09/2020

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2022Health, Standard 24/09/2021

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