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Data Element Detail

Episode of admitted patient care-length of stay in intensive care unit, total hours and minutes
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 041653 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Draft
23-Apr-2013		Current
09-Jul-2013
Standard
01-Jul-2013
The total time a patient has spent in an intensive care unit during a single episode of admitted patient care, expressed as hours and minutes.
Admitted patient care
Length of stay in intensive care unit
Representational Attributes
Numeric Character
Time
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7
7
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

Total hours and minutes expressed as 0000000, 0000145, 0042510 etc.
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
The total number of hours and minutes is to be reported by public hospitals that have either an approved level 6 adult intensive care unit (standard ward code ICU6) or an approved level 6 children's intensive care service (standard ward code CIC6) as listed in the Clinical Services Capability Framework (CSCF). In the CSCF a level 6 children's intensive care service is the only designated paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Adult Intensive Care Unit, Level 6
The unit must be capable of providing complex, multisystem life support for an indefinite period; be a tertiary referral centre for patients in need of intensive care services and have extensive backup laboratory and clinical service facilities to support the tertiary referral role. It must be capable of providing mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal renal support services and invasive cardiovascular monitoring for an indefinite period; or care of a similar nature.

Children's Intensive Care Service, Level 6
The service must be capable of providing complex, multisystem life support for an indefinite period; be a tertiary referral centre for children needing intensive care; and have extensive backup laboratory and clinical service facilities to support this tertiary role. It must be capable of providing mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal renal support services and invasive cardiovascular monitoring for an indefinite period to infants and children less than 16 years of age; or care of a similar nature.
Must not be greater than 9999959.
Last 2 digits must not be greater than 59.
Must be completed if Clinical ward specialty-standard ward code is code ICU6 (Intensive Care Unit Level 6) or CIC6 (Children's Intensive Care Service Level 6).

Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC):
Must be transmitted as a 7 character string, right adjusted and zero filled from the left.
For the purposes of calculating the length of stay in an intensive care unit, begin the calculation with the following:
- Arrival of the patient in the intensive care unit.

End the calculation with one of the following:
- Discharge, death or transfer of a patient from the intensive care unit; or
- Change of episode type.

Where an episode of admitted patient care involves more than one period spent in an intensive care unit, the total number of hours is to be reported for all periods during the episode of care.

The time spent in an operating theatre or in a coronary care unit is not counted.

Where there is a contracted service episode, Hospital A will report the total duration spent in the intensive care unit of Hospital B in addition to any length of time spent in Hospital A. Hospital B will only report the total time spent in the intensive care unit in Hospital B.

If the duration of length of stay in an intensive care unit is equal to or greater than 99999 hours 59 minutes, report 99999 hours 59 minutes (9999959).

For national reporting of the Episode of admitted patient care-length of stay in intensive care unit, total hours (NHDD) data element the value domain of this data element is reported as follows to the nearest hour in the hhhh format. For example:
- If the total length of stay in the intensive care unit is 98 hours 30 minutes, round up to 99 hours (0099).
- If the total length of stay in the intensive care unit is 98 hours 29 minutes, round down to 98 hours (0098).
- If the total length of stay in the intensive care unit is equal to or greater than 99999 hours, report 9999 hours (9999).

Note: 0-29 minutes is rounded down, and 30-59 minutes is rounded up.

Hospital Based Corporate Information System (HBCIS):
Reported as the total time in hours and minutes that the patient was admitted to a ward or bed assigned a standard ward/bed category of ICU6 or CIC6, plus any time spent in ICU on contract leave.

The total hours are calculated automatically by HBCIS looking at the patient's ward/bed occupancy plus any time reported as Contracted ICU (i.e. data recorded in Field 05 'Contracted ICU' within the CONTRACTED CARE screen).
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptEpisode of admitted patient careQH 041604 Version 1Current
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)QH 020001 Version 2ConditionalCurrent01-Jul-2019
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)QH 020001 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201330-Jun-2019
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Private Facility Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2016-2017QH 020315 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201630-Jun-2017
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Private Facility Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2017-2018QH 020501 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201730-Jun-2018
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Private Facility Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2018-2019QH 020503 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201830-Jun-2019
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Private Facility Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2019-2020QH 020581 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201930-Jun-2020
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Private Facility Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2020-2021QH 020692 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-202030-Jun-2021
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Private Facility Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2021-2022QH 020780 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-202130-Jun-2022
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Private Facility Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2022-2023QH 0139401 Version 1ConditionalCurrent01-Jul-202230-Jun-2023
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Public Hospital Services Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2016-2017QH 020314 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201630-Jun-2017
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Public Hospital Services Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2017-2018QH 020329 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201730-Jun-2018
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Public Hospital Services Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2018-2019QH 020504 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201830-Jun-2019
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Public Hospital Services Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2019-2020QH 020582 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-201930-Jun-2020
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Public Hospital Services Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2020-2021QH 020693 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-202030-Jun-2021
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) Public Hospital Services Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2021-2022QH 020781 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-202130-Jun-2022
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
METeOR data element: Episode of admitted patient care-length of stay in intensive care unit, total hours NNNN, Identifier 471553, Health standard 07/02/2013 https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/471553/meteorItemView/long
CRDI; CRDI QHAPDC; ICU; Intensive care; LOS; Length of stay;