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Data Element Detail

Outpatient clinic written referral-issue date
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040928 v2
Data Element
Data Element
Draft
19-May-2011		Current
25-Jun-2011		Superseded
30-Jun-2015
Standard
01-Jul-2010
30-Jun-2015
The date a written referral was issued to an outpatient clinic by a referring practitioner on behalf of a patient.
Hospital outpatient clinic services excluding community mental health care (which includes hospital-based mental health ambulatory services).
Referral issue date (ODC)
Representational Attributes
Numeric Character
Date
DDMMYYYY
8
8
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

-
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
A referring practitioner must include the date a referral was written on behalf of a patient.
Must be a valid date
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
SupersedesData ElementData ElementNon-admitted patient care-referral issue dateQH 040928 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData ElementOutpatient clinic service request-source of requestQH 040938 Version 2Superseded
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptOutpatient clinic written referralQH 040927 Version 2Retired
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

No Metadata Items
Source and Reference Attributes
Queensland Health
Outpatient Services Implementation Standard
Outpatient clinic; Referral;