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Data Element Detail

Emergency department stay-physical departure date
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040969 v2
Data Element
Derived Data Element
Current
17-Mar-2020
Standard
Information Management Strategic Governance Committee (IMSGC), Queensland Health
17-Mar-2020
The date on which a patient departs an emergency department after a stay.
Emergency department care.
Physical departure date
Representational Attributes
Numeric Character
Date
DDMMYYYY
8
8
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

-
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
The episode end status should guide the selection of the value to be recorded in this field:
* If the patient is subsequently admitted to this hospital (either short stay unit, hospital-in-the-home or non-emergency department hospital ward), then record the date the patient leaves the emergency department to go to the admitted patient facility.
o Patients admitted to any other ward or bed within the emergency department have not physically departed the emergency department until they leave the emergency department.
o If the patient is admitted and subsequently dies before leaving the emergency department, then record the date the body was removed from the emergency department.
* If the service episode is completed without the patient being admitted, then record the date the patient?s emergency department non-admitted clinical care ended.
* If the service episode is completed and the patient is referred to another hospital for admission, then record the date the patient leaves the emergency department.
* If the patient did not wait, then record the date the patient leaves the emergency department or was first noticed as having left.
* If the patient leaves at their own risk, then record the date the patient leaves the emergency department or was first noticed as having left.
* If the patient died in the emergency department, then record the date the body was removed from the emergency department.
* If the patient was dead on arrival, then record the date the body was removed from the emergency department. If an emergency department physician certified the death of the patient outside the emergency department, then record the date the patient was certified dead.
* If the patient was registered, advised of another health-care service, and left the emergency department without being attended by a health-care professional, then record the date the patient leaves the emergency department.
Collected in conjunction with emergency department stay physical departure time.
This data element has been developed for the purpose of State and Territory compliance with the National Healthcare Agreement and the agreed national access performance indicator.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Is derived fromData ElementData ElementEmergency department stay-physical departure date/timeQH 042216 Version 1Superseded
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

No Metadata Items
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
METeOR data element: Emergency department stay-physical departure date, DDMMYYYY, Identifier 684489, Health standard 25/01/2018
https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/684489/meteorItemView/long
ED; Emergency department; Emergency patient; Physical departure;