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Admission
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Identifier
QH 040381
Version
2
Metadata Item Type
Data Element
Data Element Type
Data Element Concept
Approval Status
Current
01-Jul-2000  		Superseded
03-Aug-2014  
Approval Type
Standard
Approving Authority
-
Effective From
01-Jul-2000
Effective To
30-Jun-2014
Definition 
Admission is the process whereby the hospital accepts responsibility for the patient's care and/or treatment. Admission follows a clinical decision based upon specified criteria that a patient requires same-day or overnight care or treatment. An admission may be formal or statistical.

Formal admission: 
The administrative process by which a hospital records the commencement of treatment and/or care and/or accommodation of a patient.

Statistical admission:
The administrative process by which a hospital records the commencement of a new episode of care, with a new care type, for a patient within one hospital stay.
Context 
Admitted patient care
Collection and Usage Attributes
Guide for Use
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Comment 
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.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References
Has been superseded by Admission QH 040381 Version 3
Relates to Admitted patient QH 040380 Version 1
Supersedes Admission QH 040381 Version 1
 
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Otherrelational

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Set TypeNameAscendingIdentifier & VersionObligationEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)QH 020001 Version 101-Jul-200030-Jun-2014
Source and Reference Attributes
Source Organisation 
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Source Document
METeOR glossary item: Admission, identifier 327206, Health standard 01/03/2005 https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/327206
Keywords

Admission