Emergency service stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency service presentation date |
| METEOR identifier: | 745724 |
| Registration status: |
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| Definition: | The date on which a patient/client presents to an emergency service for the delivery of a service, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
| Data Element Concept: | Emergency service stay—presentation date |
Value domain attributes | |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Date |
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| Data type: | Date/Time |
| Format: | DDMMYYYY |
| Maximum character length: | 8 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The date of patient presentation at the emergency service is the date of first recorded contact with an emergency service staff member. The first recorded contact can be the commencement of the clerical registration or triage process whichever happens first. |
| Comments: | Required to identify commencement of a visit and for calculation of waiting times. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Is used in the formation of Emergency service stay—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN
Is used in the formation of Emergency service stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN
See also Emergency service stay—presentation time, hhmm
See also Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Health, Superseded 07/02/2023 Health, Standard 07/02/2023 Health, Qualified 08/09/2023 |