Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Triage category |
METEOR identifier: | 471926 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 30/01/2012 |
Definition: | The urgency of the patient's need for medical and nursing care as assessed at triage, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category |
Value Domain: | Triage category code N |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | This triage classification is to be used in the emergency departments of hospitals. Patients will be triaged into one of five categories on the National Triage Scale according to the triageur's response to the question: 'This patient should wait for medical care no longer than ...?'. The triage category is allocated by an experienced registered nurse or medical practitioner. If the triage category changes, both triage categories can be captured, but the original category must be reported in this data element. A triage category should not be assigned for patients who have an Episode end status of 'Dead on arrival, emergency department clinician certified the death of the patient'. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | National Triage Scale, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health!, Superseded 29/01/2012 Has been superseded by Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N Health!, Superseded 05/10/2016 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Non-admitted patient emergency department care DSS 1 January 2012-30 June 2012 Health!, Retired 30/01/2012 Implementation start date: 01/01/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2012 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2011-12 Health!, Superseded 30/01/2012 Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 Implementation end date: 30/06/2012 |
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