Ambulatory care

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
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Registration status:	Health, Superseded 17/12/2021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
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Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Ambulatory care Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Supersedes Ambulatory care ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 23/12/2020 Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Ambulatory service unit identifier Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Ambulatory service unit name Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Community mental health care NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Community mental health care NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Emergency department ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/12/2016 Mental health establishments NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Outpatient clinic service ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 25/01/2018 Person—unit identifier type, mental health organisation type code NN Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Service provider setting origin code N Health, Standard 23/12/2020