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Non-admitted patient ED service episode-triage category
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Identifier & Version
QH 040978 v3
Metadata Item Type
Data Element
Data Element Type
Data Element
Approval Status
Current
29-Jan-2012
Superseded
30-Jun-2012
Approval Type
Standard
Approving Authority
Effective From
01-Jul-2011
Effective To
30-Jun-2012
Definition
The urgency of the patient's need for medical and nursing care as assessed at triage.
Context
Emergency department care
Short Name
Triage category
Name in Other Contexts
Representational Attributes
Datatype
Numeric
Representation Class
Code
Format
N
Minimum Character Length
1
Maximum Character Length
1
Permissible Values
Permissible_values
Code
Description
1
Resuscitation: immediate (within seconds)
2
Emergency: within 10 minutes
3
Urgent: within 30 minutes
4
Semi-urgent: within 60 minutes
5
Non-urgent: within 120 minutes
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Supplemenary_values
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This triage classification is to be used in the emergency departments of hospitals. Patients will be triaged into one of five categories on the National Triage Scale according to the triageur's response to the question: 'This patient should wait for medical care no longer than ...?'.
The triage category is allocated by an experienced registered nurse or medical practitioner. If the triage category changes, both triage categories can be captured, but the original category must be reported in this data element.
A triage category should not be assigned for patients who have an Episode end status of 'Dead on arrival, emergency department clinician certified the death of the patient'.
Comments
Required to provide data for analysis of emergency department processes.
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Non-admitted patient ED service episode-triage category
QH 040978 Version 2
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Data Element
Non-admitted patient ED service episode-triage category
QH 040978 Version 4
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Data Element
Non-admitted patient ED service episode-triage date/time
QH 042211 Version 1
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Name
Identifer & Version
Obligation
Approval Status
Effective From
Effective To
Information Asset
Data Collection
Emergency Data Collection (EDC)
QH 020159 Version 1
Conditional
Superseded
01-Jul-2011
30-Jun-2012
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Data Quality Declaration
Source and Reference Attributes
Source Organisation
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Source Document
METeOR data element: Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode-triage category, code N, Identifier 471926, Health standard 29/01/2012
https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/471926/meteorItemView/long
Keywords
CRDI
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CRDI EDC
;
ED
;
Emergency department
;
Emergency patient
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Triage
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