Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency department presentation date |
| METEOR identifier: | 746093 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 |
| Definition: | The date on which a patient/client presents to an emergency department for the delivery of a service, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
| Data Element Concept: | Emergency department stay—presentation date |
| Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Date | |
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| Data type: | Date/Time | |
| Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
| Maximum character length: | 8 | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The date of patient presentation at the emergency department is the date of first recorded contact with an emergency department staff member. The first recorded contact can be the commencement of the clerical registration or triage process whichever happens first. |
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| Collection methods: | Collected in conjunction with Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm |
| 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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/03/2023 Is used in the formation of Emergency department stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 Is used in the formation of Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 See also Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 See also Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 07/02/2023 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2023–24 Health, Standard 07/02/2023 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2024–25 Health, Qualified 08/09/2023 |