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

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Triage category
METEOR identifier:	684872
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Definition:	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:	Emergency department care.
Data Element Concept:	Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
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

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

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'.

Comments:

Required to provide data for analysis of emergency department processes.

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, 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:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

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 ACT 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 2019–20 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