Emergency service stay—physical departure time, hhmm

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Standard 20/10/2021

Emergency service care.

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Source and reference attributes

Standards Australia 2019. Date and time -- Representations for information interchange AS ISO 8061-1:2019 and 8061-2:2019, Standards Australia, NSW

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

The Emergency service stay—episode end status, code N should guide the selection of the value to be recorded in this field:

• If the service episode is completed without the patient being admitted, then record the time the patient's emergency service non-admitted clinical care ended.
• If the service episode is completed and the patient is referred to another hospital for admission, then record the time the patient leaves the emergency service.
• If the patient was dead on arrival, then record the time the body was removed from the emergency service. If an emergency service physician certified the death of the patient outside the emergency service, then record the time the patient was certified dead.
• If the patient was registered, advised of another health-care service, and left the emergency service without being attended by a health-care professional, then record the time the patient leaves the emergency service.

Collected in conjunction with Emergency service stay—physical departure date, DDMMYYYY.

Source and reference attributes

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Relational attributes