Ambulatory care

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	749893
Registration status:	Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Definition:	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:	Health Expenditure Advisory Committee
Origin:	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Related metadata references:	Supersedes Ambulatory care Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	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