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Ambulatory care

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term749893
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Definition:Help on this term

Care provided to hospital patients who are not admitted to the hospital, such as patients of emergency departments and outpatient clinics. The term is also used to refer to care provided to patients of community-based (non-hospital) health-care services.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Health Expenditure Advisory Committee

Origin:Help on this term

AIHW 2007. Mental health services in Australia 2004–05. AIHW cat. no. HSE 47. Canberra: AIHW (Mental Health Series no. 9).

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Ambulatory care
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2022–23
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Ambulatory service unit identifier
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Ambulatory service unit name
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Community mental health care NMDS 2022–23
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Emergency department
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Mental Health Carer Experience of Service NBEDS
  • Health, Standard 10/06/2022
Mental health establishments NMDS 2022–23
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Outpatient clinic service
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 25/01/2018
Person—unit identifier type, mental health organisation type code NN
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Service contact—episode of care setting, code N
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Service provider setting origin code N
  • Health, Recorded 06/10/2021
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