Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to hospital admission), total hours and minutes NNNN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Emergency department waiting time to admission |
METEOR identifier: | 270004 |
Registration status: | Health!, Retired 02/04/2014 |
Definition: | The time elapsed for each patient from presentation to the emergency department to admission to hospital. |
Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to hospital admission) |
Value Domain: | Total hours and minutes NNNN |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | NNNN | |
Maximum character length: | 4 | |
Unit of measure: | Hour and minute |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Calculated from admission date and time minus date and time patient presents for those emergency department patients who are admitted. |
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Collection methods: | To be collected on patients presenting to emergency department for unplanned care in public hospitals with emergency department and private hospitals providing contracted services for the public sector. |
Comments: | This is a critical waiting times metadata item. It is used to examine the length of waiting time, for performance indicators and benchmarking. Information based on this metadata item will have many uses including to assist in the planning and management of hospitals and in health care research. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Is formed using Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020 Is formed using Episode of admitted patient care—admission time, hhmm Health!, Superseded 05/10/2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020 Is formed using Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Standard 01/03/2005 Is formed using Health service event—presentation time, hhmm Health!, Standard 01/03/2005 Is formed using Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—patient departure status, code N Health!, Superseded 24/03/2006 Is re-engineered from Emergency department waiting time to admission, version 1, Derived DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.6 KB) No registration status |
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