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Episode of admitted patient care—admission time, hhmm

Definition

Time at which an admitted patient commences an episode of care.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Episode of admitted patient care—admission time, hhmm

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Time hhmm ".
Data Type Date/Time
Format hhmm
Maximum character length 4

Comments

Origin:
National Health Data Committee

Comments:

Required to identify the time of commencement of the episode or hospital stay, for calculation of waiting times and length of stay.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 3
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
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As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0