Emergency department

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	745042
Registration status:	Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Definition:	An emergency department provides triage, assessment, care and/or treatment for patients suffering from medical condition/s and/or injury. Emergency departments provide care in facilities which meet all of the following criteria: purposely designed 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Related metadata references:	Supersedes Emergency department ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/12/2016 See also Emergency service Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Ambulatory care Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Emergency department stay—additional diagnosis Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 11th edn) ANN{.N[N]} Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—physical departure date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—physical departure date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—physical departure time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—physical departure time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—presentation date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—presentation time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—principal diagnosis, Emergency Department (ICD-10-AM 11th Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List code ANN{.N[N]} Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—transport mode Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—transport mode (arrival), code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—waiting time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department visit type code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Non-admitted patient NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Triage Health, Standard 20/10/2021