Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 327268 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 |
Definition: | The process by which an episode of care for an admitted patient ceases. A separation may be formal or statistical. Formal separation: The administrative process by which a hospital records the cessation of treatment and/or care and/or accommodation of a patient. Statistical separation: The administrative process by which a hospital records the cessation of an episode of care for a patient within the one hospital stay. |
Context: | Admitted patient care. |