Prison dischargee—emergency department visit indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Emergency department visit indicator |
METEOR identifier: | 629233 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 28/04/2016 |
Definition: | An indicator as to whether a prison dischargee has visited an emergency department, for reasons relevant to their own health, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Prison dischargee—emergency department visit indicator |
Value Domain: | Prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Yes |
2 | No | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Unknown |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | For use in Prisoner health data collections. If this value domain is used with other metadata then 'Unknown' would map to code 8. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The prisoner must have visited the emergency department but not be admitted to hospital during their most recent imprisonment. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Prison dischargee—emergency department visit indicator, yes/no code N Health, Superseded 28/04/2016 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prison dischargee NBEDS Health, Standard 28/04/2016 DSS specific information: This data element is included in the Prisoner health NBEDS as the National Prisoner Health Indicators include the indicator: Proportion of prison dischargees who visited an emergency department. Prison dischargee NBEDS 2018 Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Dischargee Form: 30d. While in prison this time, have you visited an emergency department about your health? This data element is included in the Prisoner health NBEDS as the National Prisoner Health Indicators include the indicator: Proportion of prison dischargees who visited an emergency department. |