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Registration status:	Health, Superseded 20/10/2021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:	Triage category code N

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Code
Data type:	Number
Format:	N
Maximum character length:	1
	Value	Meaning
Permissible values:	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:	Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—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
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 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
Implementation in Indicators:	Used as Numerator Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, 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, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2020 Health, 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, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2022 Health, Standard 24/09/2021 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2022 Health, Standard 24/09/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, 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, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2020 Health, 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, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.7–Waiting times for emergency department care: percentage of patients whose length of emergency department stay is 4 hours or less, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.7–Waiting times for emergency department care: percentage of patients whose length of emergency department stay is 4 hours or less, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.7–Waiting times for emergency department care: percentage of patients whose length of emergency department stay is 4 hours or less, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.7–Waiting times for emergency department care: percentage of patients whose length of emergency department stay is 4 hours or less, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.8–Waiting times for emergency department care: time spent in the emergency department, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.8–Waiting times for emergency department care: time spent in the emergency department, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.8–Waiting times for emergency department care: time spent in the emergency department, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.8–Waiting times for emergency department care: time spent in the emergency department, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2022 Health, Standard 24/09/2021 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2022 Health, Standard 24/09/2021