Emergency service stay—principal diagnosis

Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METeOR identifier:	730943
Registration status:	Health, Standard 05/02/2021
Definition:	The diagnosis established at the conclusion of the patient's attendance in an emergency service to be mainly responsible for occasioning the attendance following consideration of clinical assessment.
Context:	Emergency service care.
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class:	Emergency service stay
Definition:	The period between when a patient presents at an emergency service and when that person is recorded as having physically departed the emergency service.
Context:	Emergency service care.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property:	Principal diagnosis
Definition:	The diagnosis chiefly responsible for occasioning a service event or episode.
Property group:	Service provision event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
Relational attributes
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Emergency service stay—Principal Diagnosis (ICD-10-AM 11th edition) Short List code ANN{.N[N]} Health, Standard 05/02/2021