Emergency service

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	745039
Registration status:	Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Definition:	An emergency service provides triage, assessment, care and/or treatment for patients suffering from medical condition/s and/or injury. Emergency services provide care in facilities which do not meet all of the following criteria: purposely designated and equipped area with designated assessment, treatment and resuscitation areas ability to provide resuscitation, stabilisation and initial management of all emergencies availability of medical staff in the hospital 24 hours a day designated emergency department nursing staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and a designated emergency department nursing unit manager.

Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Emergency service Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 See also Emergency department Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Emergency service care aggregate NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service care NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—additional diagnosis Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 11th edn) ANN{.N[N]} Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—clinical care commencement date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—clinical care commencement date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—clinical care commencement time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—clinical care commencement time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—episode end date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—episode end date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—episode end status Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—episode end status, code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—episode end time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—episode end time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—physical departure date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—physical departure date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—physical departure time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—physical departure time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—presentation date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—presentation time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—presentation time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—principal diagnosis Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—Principal Diagnosis (ICD-10-AM 11th edition) Short List code ANN{.N[N]} Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—service episode length Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—transport mode Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—transport mode (arrival), code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—triage category Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—triage category, code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—triage date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—triage date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—triage time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—triage time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—type of visit to emergency service Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—type of visit to emergency service, code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—waiting time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service visit type code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Triage Health, Standard 20/10/2021