Non-admitted patient service event—multiple health-care provider indicator, yes/no/not applicable/not stated/inadequately described code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Multiple health-care provider indicator
Synonymous names:	Multiple health-care provider flag
METEOR identifier:	727749
Registration status:	Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 28/03/2023
Definition:	An indicator of whether a non-admitted patient service event was delivered by multiple health-care providers, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Non-admitted patient service event—multiple health-care provider indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Supplementary values:

Value	Meaning
7	Not applicable
9	Not stated/inadequately described

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

CODE 1 Yes

This code is used to indicate that direct care has been provided by multiple health-care providers.

CODE 2 No

This code is used to indicate that direct care has not been provided by multiple health-care providers.

CODE 7 Not applicable

This code is used to indicate that there was no direct interaction between the patient and a health-care provider. This includes multi-disciplinary case conferences where the patient does not participate, and home delivered services where the patient performs the procedure and no healthcare provider is present.

CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described

This code is used when there is insufficient information to determine whether direct care has been provided by multiple health-care providers.

Collection methods:

The definition of the term 'multiple health-care provider' can vary depending on the context and/or collection in which the term is being applied.

For example, in the context of reporting non-admitted activity data for activity based funding, 'multiple health-care provider' means three or more health-care providers who deliver care either individually or jointly within a non-admitted patient service event. The health-care providers may be of the same profession (medical, nursing or allied health). However, they must each have a different speciality so that the care provided by each provider is unique and meets the definition of a non-admitted patient service event.

In practice, this should be interpreted as meaning that the patient can separately identify the unique care provided by each health-care provider. For example:

A patient attends a pain management clinic for assessment. At the assessment there is a doctor specialising in chronic diseases, a doctor specialising in pain management, a nurse specialising in pain management and an occupational therapist. As each provider will provide unique clinical content to the assessment, this is counted as multiple health-care providers.
A patient attends a rehabilitation clinic and sees a physiotherapist, an occupational therapist and then a nurse, all individually. This would be counted as multiple health-care providers.
A patient attends a hydrotherapy clinic, sees a physiotherapist who provides a plan, and then completes the plan with a physiotherapist aid. This would not be counted as multiple health-care providers.