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Hospital service—care type

Definition

The overall nature of a clinical service provided to an admitted patient during an episode of care (admitted care), or the type of service provided by the hospital for boarders or posthumous organ procurement (care other than admitted care).

Components

Data Element
Implemented in 2 data elements

Comments

Context:

Admitted patient care and hospital activity:

For admitted patients, the type of care received will determine the appropriate casemix classification employed to classify the episode of care.

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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Relation Count
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept 2