Admitted patient stay

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	750462
Registration status:	Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Definition:	The period of admitted care provided by a health care facility between formal admission and a formal separation. The admitted care provided may include that provided by another health service provider under a contracted hospital care arrangement or hospital-in-the-home care.
Context:	Admitted patient care.

Collection and usage attributes
Comments:	Relationship between admitted patient stay and episode of care An admitted patient stay may contain one, or more than one, episode of admitted patient care. Where an admitted patient stay contains more than one episode of admitted care it typically involves a care type change. That is, a statistical separation and a statistical admission may include a new care type to the previous episode of care. Reporting diagnoses and the admitted patient stay The Australian Coding Standards (ACS) include guidelines for reporting diagnoses that are relevant for an episode of admitted patient care. Certain ACS allow the reporting of diagnoses that are documented across the admitted patient stay.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
Reference documents:	IHPA (Independent Hospital Pricing Authority) 2022. Australian Coding Standards Twelfth Edition. Sydney: IHPA.
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Admission ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 15/08/2016 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 Admitted patient care NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Hospital-in-the-home care ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Incomplete 17/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 Separation ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016