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Patient—relationship to health-care service provider, code N

Definition

The relationship of the patient to the health-care service provider, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Patient—relationship to health-care service provider, code N

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Patient relationship to health-care service provider code N ".
Data Type Number
Format N
Maximum character length 1
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 Public admitted hospital patient
2 Private admitted hospital patient
3 Resident
8 Other
Supplementary Values 9 Not stated/inadequately described

Comments

Comments:

The coding category definitions were developed with reference to the following metadata items in the National Health Data Dictionary Version 15: Admitted patient election status; Compensable status; Funding source for hospital patient; and Medicare eligibility status (AIHW 2010).

This data element distinguishes between public and private admitted hospital patients only as it is difficult to distinguish between public and private non-admitted hospital patients, and the relevant NHDD data elements all apply to hospital patients only. Also, national data on numbers of hospital separations for public and private patients are available, whereas similar denominator data are not readily available for non-admitted patients.

References

AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2010. National health data dictionary. Version 15. National health data dictionary series. Cat. no. HWI 107. Canberra: AIHW
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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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 2
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0