Urgency related groups
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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Synonymous names: | URGs |
METEOR identifier: | 496744 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 |
Definition: | A patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the number and types of patients treated in an emergency department. |
Context: | Urgency related groups (URGs) provide a summary of the complexity and type of patients treated within an emergency department. Emergency department episodes of care are grouped into URGs based on:
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