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Episode of admitted patient care—clinical assessment only indicator, yes/no/unknown code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Element

Short name:

Clinical assessment only indicator

Synonymous names:

Assessment only indicator

METeOR identifier:

471807

Registration status:

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012

Definition:

An indicator of whether an episode of admitted patient care resulted in the patient undergoing a clinical assessment only, as represented by a code.

Data Element Concept:

Episode of admitted patient care—clinical assessment only indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Supplementary values:

3	Unknown
9	Not stated/inadequately described

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

An episode of care is regarded as ‘assessment only’ if a patient was seen for clinical assessment only and no treatment or further intervention was planned by the assessing clinical team.

CODE 1 Yes

This code is used when the patient was assessed by a clinical team but received no treatment during an episode. These episodes are usually of short duration, normally less than 3 days.

CODE 2 No

This code is used when the patient was assessed and then goes on to receive treatment.

CODE 3 Unknown

This code is used when it is unknown whether the patient was seen for assessment only.

CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described

This code is used when it is has not been reported whether the patient was seen for assessment only.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Has been superseded by Episode of admitted patient care—clinical assessment only indicator, yes/no/unknown/not stated/inadequately described code N Health, Standard 11/04/2014

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Activity based funding: Admitted sub-acute and non-acute hospital care DSS 2013-2014 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 11/10/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2014 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as: 2.0 rehabilitation care; 3.0 palliative care; 4.0 geriatric evaluation and management; 5.0 psychogeriatric care; or 6.0 maintenance care.

Admitted sub-acute and non-acute care activity based funding DSS 2012-2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 11/10/2012

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2012 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2013 *Conditional obligation:* Only required to be reported for episodes of care for patients with a care type of rehabilitation care, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric care or maintenance care.

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