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Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Representational Attributes
Collection and Usage Attributes
Relational Attributes
Source and Reference Attributes

Source of referral

Identifying and Definitional Attributes

Identifier & Version

QH 040010 v5

Metadata Item Type

Data Element

Data Element Type

Data Element

Approval Status

Current
01-Jul-2003

Superseded
03-Aug-2014

Approval Type

Standard

Approving Authority

Effective From

01-Jul-2003

Effective To

30-Jun-2014

Definition

Source of referral/transfer for the statistical or formal admission. The referral point of the patient immediately before admission.

Context

Institutional health care.

Short Name

Source of referral (QHAPDC)

Name in Other Contexts

Admission source

Representational Attributes

Datatype

Numeric Character

Representation Class

Code

Format

N(2)

Minimum Character Length

Maximum Character Length

Permissible Values

Permissible_values

Code	Description
01	Private medical practitioner (not psychiatrist)
02	Emergency department - this hospital
03	Outpatient department - this hospital
06	Episode change
09	Born in facility
14	Other health care establishment
15	Private psychiatrist
16	Correctional facility
17	Law enforcement agency
18	Community service
19	Routine readmission not requiring referral
20	Organ procurement
21	Boarder
23	Residential aged care service
24	Admitted patient transferred from another hospital
25	Non-admitted patient referred from another hospital
29	Other

Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

Collection and Usage Attributes

Guide for Use

New

Verification Rules

Collection Methods

Comments

Relational Attributes

Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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Relationship	Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifier & Version	Approval Status
Supersedes	Data Element	Data Element	Source of referral	QH 040010 Version 4	Superseded
Has been superseded by	Data Element	Data Element	Episode of admitted patient care-source of referral/transfer	QH 040010 Version 6	Superseded
Is used in conjunction with	Data Element	Data Element	Facility transferred from	QH 040116 Version 1	Superseded

Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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View	Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifer & Version	Obligation	Approval Status	Effective From	Effective To
	Information Asset	Data Collection	Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)	QH 020001 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jul-2003	30-Jun-2014

Data Quality Declaration

Source and Reference Attributes

Source Organisation

Source Document

Keywords

Admission source; CRDI; CRDI QHAPDC; Source of referral;