Emergency service stay—triage category, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency service stay triage category |
| METEOR identifier: | 745267 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 20/10/2021 |
| Definition: | The urgency of a patient's need for medical and/or nursing care as assessed at triage in an emergency service, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | Emergency service care. |
| Data Element Concept: | Emergency service stay—triage category |
| Value Domain: | Triage category code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Resuscitation: immediate (within seconds) |
| 2 | Emergency: within 10 minutes | |
| 3 | Urgent: within 30 minutes | |
| 4 | Semi-urgent: within 60 minutes | |
| 5 | Non-urgent: within 120 minutes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Collection methods: | This triage classification is to be used in the emergency services of hospitals. Patients will be triaged into one of five categories on the Australasian Triage Scale according to the triageur's response to the question: 'This patient should wait for medical care no longer than ...?'. The triage category is allocated by an experienced registered nurse or medical practitioner. If the triage category changes, both triage categories can be captured, but the original category must be reported in this data element. A triage category should not be assigned for patients if Emergency service stay—type of visit to emergency service, is coded 5 (i.e. Dead on arrival). |
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| Comments: | Required to provide data for analysis of emergency service processes. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority |
| Origin: | Australasian Triage Scale, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine |
| 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
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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Emergency service stay—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 See also Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Standard 20/10/2021 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Emergency service care aggregate NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 20/12/2022 Emergency service care aggregate NBEDS 2023–24 Health, Standard 20/12/2022 Emergency service care aggregate NBEDS 2024–25 Health, Qualified 08/09/2023 |