Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement time, hhmm
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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Short name:![]() | Emergency department clinical care commencement time |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 746621 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Standard 20/10/2021 |
Definition:![]() | The time at which emergency department non-admitted clinical care commences, expressed as hhmm. |
Context:![]() | Emergency department care. |
Data Element Concept:![]() | Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement time |
Value Domain:![]() | Time hhmm |
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Representational attributes | ||
Representation class:![]() | Time | |
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Data type:![]() | Date/Time | |
Format:![]() | hhmm | |
Maximum character length:![]() | 4 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents:![]() | Standards Australia 2019. Date and time -- Representations for information interchange AS ISO 8061-1:2019 and 8061-2:2019, Standards Australia, NSW |
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Guide for use:![]() | Emergency department non-admitted clinical care can be commenced by a doctor, nurse, mental health practitioner or other health professional, when investigation, care and/or treatment is provided in accordance with an established clinical pathway defined by the emergency department. Placement of a patient in a cubicle and observations taken to monitor a patient pending a clinical decision regarding commencement of a clinical pathway, do not constitute commencement. Patients with a Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status of 'Did not wait to be attended by a healthcare professional' or 'Registered, advised of another health care service, and left the emergency department without being attended by a health care professional' should not have a clinical care commencement time, because they left before investigation, care and/or treatment was commenced by a health professional in accordance with an established clinical pathway defined by the emergency department. The following examples illustrate the commencement of emergency department non-admitted clinical care. Example 1
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Collection methods:![]() | Collected in conjunction with Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement date, DDMMYYYY. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation:![]() | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
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Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement time, hhmm Health!, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/05/2020 Is used in the formation of Emergency department stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN Health!, Standard 20/10/2021 See also Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—clinical care commencement date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Standard 20/10/2021 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:![]() | Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2022–23 Health!, Standard 20/10/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Conditional obligation: This data item is only required to be reported if the value for Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N is recorded as:
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