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Data Element Detail

Admitted patient
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040380 v1
Data Element
Data Element Concept
Current
01-Jul-1998		Superseded
03-Aug-2014
Standard
01-Jul-1998
30-Jun-2014
An admitted patient is a patient who undergoes a hospital's formal admission process as either an overnight stay patient or a same-day patient.
Institutional health care.
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Collection and Usage Attributes
This definition includes all babies who are nine days old or less. However, all newborn days of stay are further divided into categories of qualified and unqualified for Australian Healthcare Agreements and health insurance benefit purposes. A newborn day is acute (qualified) when a newborn 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 Health Minister for the purpose of the provision of special care; - remains in hospital without its mother; - is admitted to the hospital without its mother. Acute (qualified) newborn days are eligible for health insurance benefit purposes and should be counted under the Australian Healthcare Agreements. Days when the newborn does not meet these criteria are classified as unqualified (if they are nine days old or less) and should be recorded as such. Unqualified newborn days should not be counted under the Australian Healthcare Agreements and are not eligible for health insurance benefit purposes. PATIENTS IN ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY AND OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENTS Patients attending these locations in a recognised hospital who come for a procedure that is classified as a day benefit procedure (in other words, they meet the criteria for admission) should be formally admitted. TIME AT HOSPITAL The length of time a patient spends in areas such as Outpatients or Accident and Emergency, is no indication of the need to admit the patient. Admission is allowed only on the basis that the medical practitioner wants the patient admitted and the patient meets one of the criteria listed in the policy. The concept of 'four hours' does not apply. The patient should be admitted at the time indicated by the medical practitioner, not at the time the patient arrived in Outpatients or Accident and Emergency.
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Related Metadata References

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Has been superseded byData ElementData Element ConceptAdmitted patientQH 040380 Version 2Current
Relates toData ElementData ElementEpisode typeQH 040013 Version 3Superseded
Relates toData ElementData ElementQualification statusQH 040376 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptAdmissionQH 040381 Version 2Superseded
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptAdmissionQH 040381 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementDerived Data ElementNumber of acute (qualified)/unqualified days for newbornsQH 040375 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementDerived Data ElementPatient daysQH 040015 Version 1Superseded
Implementation in Metadata Sets

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionMonthly Activity Collection (MAC)QH 020008 Version 1Superseded01-Jul-199830-Jun-2014
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)QH 020001 Version 1Superseded01-Jul-199830-Jun-2014
Source and Reference Attributes
Admission; Admitted patient; Inpatient;