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Triage

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term745263
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Definition:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Reference documents:Help on this term

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:Help on this term
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  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021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:Help on this term
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
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