Triage

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	745263
Registration status:	Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Definition:	The process by which a patient is briefly assessed to determine the urgency of their problem and priority for emergency care.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
Reference documents:	Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2013a. Policy on the Australasian Triage Scale (P06). Melbourne: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Viewed 17 June 2021, https://acem.org.au/getmedia/484b39f1-7c99-427b-b46e-005b0cd6ac64/P06-Policy-on-the-ATS-Jul-13-v04.aspx. Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2013b. Guidelines on the implementation of the Australasian Triage Scale in Emergency Department (G24). Melbourne: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Viewed 17 June 2021, https://acem.org.au/getmedia/51dc74f7-9ff0-42ce-872a-0437f3db640a/G24_04_Guidelines_on_Implementation_of_ATS_Jul-16.aspx
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Triage ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 25/05/2020
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Emergency department Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency department stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service Health, Standard 20/10/2021 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—clinical care commencement date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—clinical care commencement time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Emergency service stay—presentation time, hhmm 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—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN 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, DDMMYYYY 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—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 Triage category code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021