Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Triage category |
| METEOR identifier: | 746627 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 20/10/2021 |
| Definition: | The urgency of a non-admitted patient's need for medical and/or nursing care in an emergency department, as assessed at triage, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | Emergency department care. |
| Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—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 departments 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. This data item is not required to be reported if the value for Emergency department stay—type of visit to emergency department, code N is recorded as 5 Dead on arrival. |
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| Comments: | Required to provide data for analysis of emergency department processes. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Reference documents: | Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2013. Policy on the Australasian Triage Scale (P06). Melbourne: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Viewed 5 August 2016, https://acem.org.au/getmedia/484b39f1-7c99-427b-b46e-005b0cd6ac64/P06-Policy-on-the-ATS-Jul-13-v04.aspx Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2016. Guidelines on the implementation of the Australasian Triage Scale in Emergency Department (G24). Melbourne: Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Viewed 20 September 2016, https://acem.org.au/getmedia/51dc74f7-9ff0-42ce-872a-0437f3db640a/G24_04_Guidelines_on_Implementation_of_ATS_Jul-16.aspx |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 See also Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 See also Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 |
| 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, Superseded 06/12/2023 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2024–25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |