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Data Element Detail

Qualification status
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040376 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Current
12-Nov-1998		Superseded
03-Aug-2014
Standard
01-Jul-1998
30-Jun-2014
Qualification status indicates whether the newborn day of stay is either acute (qualified) or unqualified (for all or part of a newborn episode of care).
Institutional health care: To provide accurate information on care to babies to enable analysis to exclude normal babies.
Qualification status
Representational Attributes
Alphabetic
Code
A
1
1
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

CodeDescription
AAcute
UUnqualified
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
All babies 9 days old or less should be admitted as a newborn episode of care. On admission the newborn will have a qualification status of either acute (qualified) or unqualified depending on meeting certain criteria. A newborn is qualified if it meets at least one of the following criteria:
- is the second or subsequent live born infant of a multiple birth, whose mother is currently an admitted patient;
- is admitted to an intensive care facility in a hospital, being a facility approved by the Commonwealth Minister for the purpose of the provision of special care;
- is admitted to, or remains in hospital without its mother.

A newborn is unqualified if it does not meet any of the above criteria.
If the qualification status of the newborn changes after admission then the change in qualification status is recorded as an activity.

Record the qualification status on admission.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Has been superseded byData ElementData ElementEpisode of admitted patient care (newborn)-qualification statusQH 040376 Version 2Current
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementEpisode typeQH 040013 Version 3Superseded
Is used in the calculation ofData ElementDerived Data ElementNumber of acute (qualified)/unqualified days for newbornsQH 040375 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData ElementEpisode of admitted patient care (newborn)-date of change to qualification statusQH 041729 Version 1Current
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptAdmitted patientQH 040380 Version 1Superseded
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 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-199830-Jun-2014
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
National Health Data Dictionary: Newborn qualification status, Identifier NHDD 000343 version 2, Health standard https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/item.phtml?itemId=273445&nodeId=file41fd72cd36daf&fn=Newborn%20qualification%20status,%20version%202,%20DEC,%20NHDD,%20NHIMG,%20Superseded%2001/03/2005.pdf
Newborn; Qualified; Unqualified;