- | Elective surgery waiting times cluster |
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| Conditional obligation: This data element cluster is to be reported for patients on waiting lists for elective surgery, which are managed by public acute hospitals and have a category 1 or 2 assigned for the reason for removal from the elective surgery waiting list. |
- | Listing date for care | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY The day of a particular month and year. | |
- | Clinical urgency | Number
[1]
| 1 | Admission within 30 days desirable for a condition that has the potential to deteriorate quickly to the point that it may become an emergency | 2 | Admission within 90 days desirable for a condition causing some pain, dysfunction or disability but which is not likely to deteriorate quickly or become an emergency | 3 | Admission at some time in the future acceptable for a condition causing minimal or no pain, dysfunction or disability, which is unlikely to deteriorate quickly and which does not have the potential to become an emergency |
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- | Extended wait patient | Number
[1]
| 1 | Extended wait patient | 2 | Other patient |
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- | Indicator procedure | String
[2]
| 01 | Cataract extraction | 02 | Cholecystectomy | 03 | Coronary artery bypass graft | 04 | Cystoscopy | 05 | Haemorrhoidectomy | 06 | Hysterectomy | 07 | Inguinal herniorrhaphy | 08 | Myringoplasty | 09 | Myringotomy | 10 | Prostatectomy | 11 | Septoplasty | 12 | Tonsillectomy | 13 | Total hip replacement | 14 | Total knee replacement | 15 | Varicose veins stripping and ligation | 88 | Other |
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- | Overdue patient | Number
[1]
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- | Reason for removal from elective surgery waiting list | Number
[1]
| 1 | Admitted as an elective patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory | 2 | Admitted as an emergency patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory | 3 | Could not be contacted (includes patients who have died while waiting, whether or not the cause of death was related to the condition requiring treatment) | 4 | Treated elsewhere for awaited procedure, but not on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory | 5 | Surgery not required or declined | 6 | Transferred to another hospital's waiting list | 9 | Not known |
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- | Surgical specialty | String
[2]
| 01 | Cardio-thoracic surgery | 02 | Ear, nose and throat surgery | 03 | General surgery | 04 | Gynaecology | 05 | Neurosurgery | 06 | Ophthalmology | 07 | Orthopaedic surgery | 08 | Plastic surgery | 09 | Urology | 10 | Vascular surgery | 11 | Other |
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- | Waiting time at removal from elective surgery waiting list | Number
[4]
| N[NNN] Total number of days. | |
- | Establishment identifier | String
[9]
| NNX[X]NNNNN A combination of numeric and alphanumeric characters that identify an entity. | Conditional obligation: This is the establishment identifier of the contracting hospital and is reported for contracted patients only. |
- | Australian postcode (address) | Number
[4]
| {NNNN} The Postcode datafile code set representing Australian postcodes as defined by Australia Post. | DSS specific information: To be reported for the address of the patient. |
- | Contract establishment identifier | String
[9]
| NNX[X]NNNNN A combination of numeric and alphanumeric characters that identify an entity. | |
- | Number of qualified days for newborns | Number
[5]
| N[NNNN] Total number of days. | |
- | Admission date | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY The day of a particular month and year. | DSS specific information: Right justified and zero filled. admission date ≤ separation date admission date ≥ date of birth |
- | Mode of admission | Number
[1]
| 1 | Admitted patient transferred from another hospital | 2 | Statistical admission - episode type change | 3 | Other |
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- | Urgency of admission | Number
[1]
| 1 | Urgency status assigned - emergency | 2 | Urgency status assigned - elective | 3 | Urgency status not assigned | 9 | Not known/not reported |
| |
- | Condition onset flag | Number
[1]
| 1 | Condition with onset during the episode of admitted patient care | 2 | Condition not noted as arising during the episode of admitted patient care | 9 | Not reported |
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- | Duration of continuous ventilatory support | Number
[4]
| NNNN Total number of hours. | Conditional obligation: This data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in continuous ventilatory support. |
- | Intended length of hospital stay | Number
[1]
| 1 | Intended same-day | 2 | Intended overnight |
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- | Length of stay in intensive care unit | Number
[4]
| NNNN Total number of hours. | Conditional obligation: The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit. |
- | Number of days of hospital-in-the-home care | Number
[3]
| {N[NN]} Total number of days. | |
- | Total leave days | Number
[3]
| N[NN] Total number of days. | DSS specific information: For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies: (Episode of admitted patient care—separation date, DDMMYYYY minus Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY) minus Admitted patient hospital stay—number of leave days, total N[NN] must be ≥ 0 days. |
- | Admitted patient election status | Number
[1]
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- | Procedure | Number
[7]
| NNNNN-NN The Australian Classification of Health Intervention (8th edition) code set representing procedures. | DSS specific information: As a minimum requirement procedure codes must be valid codes from the Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) procedure codes and validated against the nationally agreed age and sex edits. More extensive edit checking of codes may be utilised within individual hospitals and state and territory information systems. An unlimited number of diagnosis and procedure codes should be able to be collected in hospital morbidity systems. Where this is not possible, a minimum of 20 codes should be able to be collected. Record all procedures undertaken during an episode of care in accordance with the ACHI (8th edition) Australian Coding Standards. The order of codes should be determined using the following hierarchy: - procedure performed for treatment of the principal diagnosis
- procedure performed for the treatment of an additional diagnosis
- diagnostic/exploratory procedure related to the principal diagnosis
- diagnostic/exploratory procedure related to an additional diagnosis for the episode of care.
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- | Source of referral to public psychiatric hospital | String
[2]
| 01 | Private psychiatric practice | 02 | Other private medical practice | 03 | Other public psychiatric hospital | 04 | Other health care establishment | 05 | Other private hospital | 06 | Law enforcement agency | 07 | Other agency | 08 | Outpatient department | 09 | Other | 10 | Unknown |
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- | Separation date | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY The day of a particular month and year. | DSS specific information: For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this field must: - be ≤ last day of financial year
- be ≥ first day of financial year
- be ≥ Admission date
|
- | Mode of separation | Number
[1]
| 1 | Discharge/transfer to (an)other acute hospital | 2 | Discharge/transfer to a residential aged care service, unless this is the usual place of residence | 3 | Discharge/transfer to (an)other psychiatric hospital | 4 | Discharge/transfer to other health care accommodation (includes mothercraft hospitals) | 5 | Statistical discharge - type change | 6 | Left against medical advice/discharge at own risk | 7 | Statistical discharge from leave | 8 | Died | 9 | Other (includes discharge to usual residence, own accommodation/welfare institution (includes prisons, hostels and group homes providing primarily welfare services)) |
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- | Additional diagnosis | String
[6]
| ANN{.N[N]} The ICD-10-AM (8th edition) code set representing diagnoses. | Conditional obligation: An unlimited number of diagnosis and procedure codes should be able to be collected in hospital morbidity systems. Where this is not possible, a minimum of 20 codes should be able to be collected. |
- | Inter-hospital contracted patient | Number
[1]
| | Contracted (destination) hospital | 1 | Inter-hospital contracted patient from public sector hospital | 2 | Inter-hospital contracted patient from private sector hospital | | Contracting (originating) hospital | 3 | Inter-hospital contracted patient to public sector hospital | 4 | Inter-hospital contracted patient to private sector hospital | 5 | Not inter-hospital contracted | 9 | Not stated |
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- | Mental health legal status | Number
[1]
| 1 | Involuntary patient | 2 | Voluntary patient | 9 | Not reported/unknown |
| |
- | Total psychiatric care days | Number
[5]
| N[NNNN] Total number of days. | DSS specific information: Total days in psychiatric care must be: ≥ zero; and ≤ length of stay. |
- | Principal diagnosis—episode of care | String
[6]
| ANN{.N[N]} The ICD-10-AM (8th edition) code set representing diagnoses. | Conditional obligation: The principal diagnosis is a major determinant in the classification of Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups and Major Diagnostic Categories. Where the principal diagnosis is recorded prior to discharge (as in the annual census of public psychiatric hospital patients), it is the current provisional principal diagnosis. Only use the admission diagnosis when no other diagnostic information is available. The current provisional diagnosis may be the same as the admission diagnosis. |
- | Funding source for hospital patient | String
[2]
| 01 | Health service budget (not covered elsewhere) | 02 | Health service budget (due to eligibility for Reciprocal Health Care Agreement) | 03 | Health service budget (no charge raised due to hospital decision) | 04 | Department of Veterans' Affairs | 05 | Department of Defence | 06 | Correctional facility | 07 | Medicare Benefits Scheme | 08 | Other hospital or public authority (contracted care) | 09 | Private health insurance | 10 | Worker's compensation | 11 | Motor vehicle third party personal claim | 12 | Other compensation (e.g. public liability, common law, medical negligence) | 13 | Self-funded | 88 | Other funding source | 98 | Not known |
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- | Australian State/Territory identifier (establishment) | Number
[1]
| 1 | New South Wales | 2 | Victoria | 3 | Queensland | 4 | South Australia | 5 | Western Australia | 6 | Tasmania | 7 | Northern Territory | 8 | Australian Capital Territory | 9 | Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory) |
| DSS specific information: This data element applies to the location of the establishment and not to the patient's area of usual residence. |
- | Geographic remoteness—admitted patient care | String
[1]
| 0 | Major cities of Australia | 1 | Inner regional Australia | 2 | Outer regional Australia | 3 | Remote Australia | 4 | Very remote Australia | 5 | Migratory | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
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- | Establishment number | Number
[5]
| NNNNN A combination of numeric characters that identify an entity. | |
- | Region code | String
[2]
| X[X] A combination of alphanumeric characters that identify an entity. | |
- | Establishment sector | Number
[1]
| | |
- | Care type | Number
[2]
| Admitted care | | 1 | Acute care | 2 | Rehabilitation care | 3 | Palliative care | 4 | Geriatric evaluation and management | 5 | Psychogeriatric care | 6 | Maintenance care | 7 | Newborn care | 8 | Other admitted patient care | Care other than admitted care | | 9 | Organ procurement—posthumous | 10 | Hospital boarder |
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- | Activity when injured | String
[5]
| ANNNN The ICD-10-AM (8th edition) code set representing the type of activity being undertaken when injured. | DSS specific information: As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification. |
- | External cause | String
[6]
| ANN{.N[N]} The ICD-10-AM (8th edition) code set representing external cause of injury, poisoning or other adverse effect. | DSS specific information: As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification. |
- | Place of occurrence of external cause of injury (ICD-10-AM) | String
[6]
| ANN{.N[N]} The ICD-10-AM (8th edition) code set representing the place where the external cause of injury, poisoning or other adverse effect occurred. | DSS specific information: To be used with ICD-10-AM external cause codes. |
- | Hospital insurance status | Number
[1]
| 1 | Hospital insurance | 2 | No hospital insurance | 9 | Unknown |
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- | Area of usual residence (SA2) | String
[9]
| N(9) A code set representing a medium-sized area built from whole Statistical areas level 1 (SA1s). The aim of Statistical areas level 2 (SA2s) is to represent a community that interacts together socially and economically. | |
- | Country of birth | Number
[4]
| NNNN The Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC 2011) code set representing a country. | |
- | Date of birth | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY The day of a particular month and year. | DSS specific information: This field must not be null. National Minimum Data Sets: For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this field must: - be less than or equal to Admission date, Date patient presents or Service contact date
- be consistent with diagnoses and procedure codes, for records to be grouped.
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- | Medicare eligibility status | Number
[1]
| 1 | Eligible | 2 | Not eligible | 9 | Not stated/unknown |
| |
- | Indigenous status | Number
[1]
| 1 | Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander origin | 2 | Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal origin | 3 | Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin | 4 | Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander origin | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| |
- | Person identifier | String
[20]
| XXXXXX[X(14)] A logical combination of valid alphanumeric characters that identify an entity. | |
- | Sex | Number
[1]
| 1 | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | Intersex or indeterminate | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| |
- | Weight in grams (measured) | Number
[4]
| NNNN Total number of grams. | Conditional obligation: Weight on the date the infant is admitted should be recorded if the weight is less than or equal to 9000g and age is less than 365 days.
DSS specific information: For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this metadata item must be consistent with diagnoses and procedure codes for valid grouping. |
- | Record identifier (15 character maximum) | String
[15]
| X[X(14)] A logical combination of alphanumeric characters that identify an entity. | DSS specific information: In the context of the Admitted patient care NMDS, the Record identifier data element exists to aid with data processing. This data element is generated for inclusion in data submissions to facilitate referencing of specific records in discussions between the receiving agency and the reporting body. It is to be used solely for this purpose. When stipulated in a data specification, each record in a data submission will be assigned a unique numeric or alphanumeric record identifier to permit easy referencing of individual records in discussions between the receiving agency and the reporting body. The unique record identifier assigned by the reporting body should be generated in a fashion that allows the associated data record to be traced to its original form in the reporting body's source database. Reporting jurisdictions may use their own alphabetic, numeric or alphanumeric coding system. This field cannot be left blank. |