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Non-admitted patient care-referral issue date
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Identifier
QH 040928
Version
1
Metadata Item Type
Data Element
Data Element Type
Data Element
Approval Status
Provisional
22-Sep-2005  		Superseded
24-Jun-2011  
Approval Type
Standard
Approving Authority
-
Effective From
01-Jul-2006
Effective To
30-Jun-2010
Definition 
The date when a referral is issued on behalf of the patient.
Context 
-
Short Name
Referral issue date (ODC)
Name in Other Contexts
-
Representational Attributes
Datatype
Numeric character
Representation Class
Date
Format
DDMMYYYY
Minimum Character Length
8
Maximum Character Length
8
Permissible Values
-
Supplementary Values
-
Collection and Usage Attributes
Guide for Use 
Specialist Outpatient Services: 
The referring practitioner must include the date the referral was issued on behalf of the patient, as specified in the Policy for the Management of Specialist Outpatient Services in Queensland Public Hospitals.
Verification Rules 
The Non-admitted patient care-referral issue date must not be later than the Non-admitted patient care-referral receipt date.
Collection Methods 
Patient administration systems (eg: HBCIS, CERNER) have dedicated elective surgery and outpatient modules to collect this data.
Comment
This data element allows a meaningful measure of system performance to be calculated, namely the number of days elapsed between the date the referral was issued on behalf of the patient and the date the referral was received by the service provider.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References
Has been superseded by Outpatient clinic written referral-issue date QH 040928 Version 2
Relates to Non-admitted patient care-clinical urgency category QH 040936 Version 1
Relates to Non-admitted patient care-referral receipt date QH 040929 Version 1
Relates to Non-admitted patient care-service delivery waiting period QH 040937 Version 1
Relates to Non-admitted patient care-specialist outpatient service-referral QH 040927 Version 1
Relates to Not ready for care QH 040377 Version 2
Relates to Not ready for care-end date QH 040355 Version 2
Relates to Not ready for care-number of days, total QH 040943 Version 1
Relates to Not ready for care-start date QH 040354 Version 2
Relates to Occasion of service QH 040607 Version 1
Relates to Patient QH 040378 Version 1
 
Implementation in Metadata Sets
Data Quality Declaration 
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Source and Reference Attributes
Source Organisation 
-
Source Document 
Policy framework for the Management of Specialist Outpatient Services in Queensland Public Hospitals (January 2005).