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Emergency department stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termEmergency department waiting time to clinical care commencement
METEOR identifier:Help on this term746119
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Definition:Help on this term

The time elapsed in minutes for each patient from presentation in the emergency department to the commencement of the emergency department non-admitted clinical care.

Data Element Concept:Emergency department stay—waiting time

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termTotal
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termNNNNN
Maximum character length:Help on this term5
Unit of measure:Help on this termMinute (m)

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

Calculated by subtracting the date and time the patient presents to the emergency department from the date and time the emergency department non-admitted clinical care commenced. Although triage category 1 is measured in seconds, it is recognised that the data will not be collected with this precision.

This data element should not be completed for patients who have a Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N of ‘Did not wait to be attended by a health care professional’ or 'Registered, advised of another health care service, and left the emergency department without being attended by a health care professional'.

Comments:Help on this term

It is recognised that at times of extreme urgency or multiple synchronous presentations, or if no medical officer is on duty in the emergency department, this service may be provided by a nurse.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Is formed using Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Is formed using Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Supersedes Emergency department stay—waiting time (to commencement of clinical care), total minutes NNNNN
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/12/2016
Is formed using Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement date, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Is formed using Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement time, hhmm
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2022–23Health, Standard 20/10/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2022

Implementation end date: 30/06/2023

Conditional obligation:

This data item is only required to be reported if the value for Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N is recorded as:

  • Code 1 - Admitted to this hospital (either short stay unit, hospital-in-the-home or non-emergency department hospital ward);
  • Code 2 - Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - departed without being admitted or referred to another hospital;
  • Code 3 - Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode completed - referred to another hospital for admission;
  • Code 5 - Left at own risk after being attended by a health care professional but before the non-admitted patient emergency department service episode was completed;
  • Code 6 - Died in emergency department.

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