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Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS

This item has been superseded by a newer version by one or more Registration Authorities.

Definition

This metadata set is nationally mandated for collection and reporting.

The scope of this National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is non-admitted patients registered for care in emergency departments in selected public hospitals that are classified as either Peer Group A or B in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Australian Hospital Statistics publication from the preceding financial year.
The care provided to patients in emergency departments is, in most instances, recognised as being provided to 'non-admitted' patients. Patients being treated in emergency departments may subsequently become 'admitted'. The care provided to non-admitted patients who are treated in the emergency department prior to being admitted is included in this NMDS.

Care provided to patients who are being treated in an emergency department site as an admitted patient (e.g. in an observation unit, short-stay unit, 'emergency department ward' or awaiting a bed in an admitted patient ward of the hospital) are excluded from the emergency department care NMDS since the recording of the care provided to these patients is part of the scope of the Admitted patient care NMDS.

Scope links with other metadata sets

Episodes of care for admitted patients are reported through the Admitted patient care NMDS.

Scope links with other metadata sets

Episodes of care for admitted patients are reported through the Admitted patient care NMDS.

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.

Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Emergency department stay—physical departure date, DDMMYYYY Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Emergency department stay—physical departure time, hhmm Date/Time 4 mandatory 1
Episode of care—funding eligibility indicator (Department of Veterans' Affairs), code N - - mandatory 1
Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN - - mandatory 1
Health service event—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Health service event—presentation time, hhmm - - mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service commencement date, DDMMYYYY Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N - - mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end time, hhmm Date/Time 4 mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service commencement time, hhmm Date/Time 4 mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN - - mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—transport mode (arrival), code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N - - mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage date, DDMMYYYY Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage time, hhmm Date/Time 4 mandatory 1
Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department, code N - - mandatory 1
Patient—compensable status, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2005) NNNNN - - mandatory 1
Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNN - - conditional 1
Person: Date of Birth, DDMMYYYY
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.
 Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Person—Indigenous status, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)] - - mandatory 1
Person: Sex, Code N Number 1 mandatory 1

Comments

Comments:

Scope links with other metadata sets

Episodes of care for admitted patients are reported through the Admitted patient care NMDS.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0