Admitted patient care admission related data elements (TDLU) cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	743790
Registration status:	Tasmanian Health, Standard 18/05/2021
DSS type:	Data Element Cluster
Scope:	The Admitted patient care admission related data elements (TDLU) cluster is a grouping of variables that are directly related to the individual associated to the admission segment of an episode of admitted patient care that is used for Tasmanian Data Linkage Unit purposes.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Department of Health Tasmania
Relational attributes
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Tasmanian Data Linkage Unit - Admitted Patient Data Set - 2020 Tasmanian Health, Standard 18/05/2021 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, MMYYYY	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, YYYY	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission source, Tasmanian code X[XAAAAAAAA]	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission specialty, Tasmanian specialty code AAAA[AA]	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission urgency status, Tasmanian code X[XX]	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission ward/clinical area name, text X[X(39)]	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—intended length of hospital stay, Tasmanian code X[XX]	Mandatory
-	Episode of admitted patient care—patient election status, code N	Mandatory
-	Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N	Mandatory
-	Episode of care—source of funding, Tasmanian code XX[AAAAA]	Mandatory
-	Establishment—organisation identifier, identifier (Tasmanian) NNNN	Mandatory
-	Hospital service—care type, Tasmanian code X[XXXX]	Mandatory
-	Patient—hospital insurance status, code N	Mandatory
-	Person—eligibility status, Medicare code N	Mandatory

Data Set Specification Attributes