Ambulatory care
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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| METEOR identifier: | 722178 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 |
| Definition: | Care provided to hospital patients who are not admitted to the hospital, such as patients of emergency departments and outpatient clinics. The term is also used to refer to care provided to patients of community-based (non-hospital) health-care services. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Health Expenditure Advisory Committee |
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| Origin: | AIHW 2007. Mental health services in Australia 2004–05. AIHW cat. no. HSE 47. Canberra: AIHW (Mental Health Series no. 9). |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Ambulatory care Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 Has been superseded by Ambulatory care Health, Standard 17/12/2021 |
| Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 23/12/2020 Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Ambulatory service unit identifier Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Ambulatory service unit name Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Community mental health care NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Community mental health care NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Person—unit identifier type, mental health organisation type code NN Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Service provider setting origin code N Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 |