Service provider organisation—number of episodes of care, total episodes N[NNNN]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Number of episodes of care |
METEOR identifier: | 755625 |
Registration status: | Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 |
Definition: | The total number of episodes of care within the reference period for a service provider organisation. |
Data Element Concept: | Service provider organisation—number of episodes of care |
Value Domain: | Total episodes N[NNNN] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N[NNNN] | |
Maximum character length: | 5 |
Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of care—number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services episodes of care, N[NN] Indigenous, Superseded 07/04/2024 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Online Services Report (OSR) DSS 2020–21 Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 DSS specific information: In the OSR DSS only aggregate data on the number of episodes of care for the funded organisation during the financial year are provided to the AIHW. Data are disaggregated by:
For data collection, recording practices may vary between funded organisations so that:
An episode of care is a contact between an individual client and a service, with one or more staff, to provide health care (e.g. for sickness, injury, counselling, health education or screening) within one calendar day. All contacts on the one day are treated holistically as one episode of care. Health care activities to include as an episode of care:
Health care activities to not include as an episode of care:
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