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Ambulatory care

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term722178
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Definition:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

Health Expenditure Advisory Committee

Origin:Help on this term

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:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Ambulatory care
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Supersedes Ambulatory care
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 16/01/2020
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015
Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
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  • Health, Superseded 23/12/2020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  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021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  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021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  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021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  • Health, Superseded 20/01/2021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  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Emergency department
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/12/2016
Mental health establishments NMDS 2020–21
  • Health, Superseded 20/01/2021
Mental health establishments NMDS 2021–22
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Outpatient clinic service
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 25/01/2018
Person—unit identifier type, mental health organisation type code NN
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Service provider setting origin code N
  • Health, Standard 23/12/2020
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