Clinical service type code N[N]

Type: Value Domain
Identifiers: UUID - 67b4069e-158c-11e7-803e-0242ac110017; meteor:meteor/270685/
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Stewardship Organisation: Aristotle Demo Organisation
Endorsed by: Health : Standard on March 1, 2005

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Created: 08 March 2015
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Definition

A code set representing clinical service types.

Representation

Data Type	Number
Format	N[N]
Maximum character length	2

Values

	Value	Meaning	Start Date	End Date
Permissible Values	1	Allied health and/or clinical nurse specialist	None	None
	2	Dental	None	None
	3	Imaging	None	None
	4	Medical	None	None
	5	Obstetrics and gynaecology	None	None
	6	Paediatrics	None	None
	7	Pathology	None	None
	8	Pharmacy	None	None
	9	Psychiatric	None	None
	10	Surgical	None	None
	11	Emergency department	None	None

Comments

Guide for use:

The following provides a guide to types of clinical services that are included in each of the categories in the data domain. Clinical services that are not specifically identified in this Guide for use should be classified as one of the groups in the data domain on the basis of the type of clinical professional staff involved in providing the service event.

In paediatric hospitals, the full range of service types should be used. That is, paediatric medical should be reported as medical and paediatric surgical should be reported as surgical.

Clinical service type	Clinical service examples
Allied health and/or clinical nurse specialist	Audiology Clinical pharmacy Diabetes education Neuropsychology Nutrition/dietetics Occupational therapy Optometry Orthoptics Orthotics Physiotherapy Podiatry Prosthetics Psychology Social work Speech pathology Stomal therapy Wound management
Dental	Dental
Imaging	Medical imaging
Medical	Aged care Alcohol and other drug Allergy Anti-coagulant Asthma Cardiology Clinical measurement Dermatology Dementia Developmental disabilities Diabetes Endocrine Epilepsy Falls Gastroenterology General internal medicine Genetic Haematology Hepatobiliary Hypertension Hyperbaric medicine Immunology Infectious diseases Medical oncology Metabolic bone Nephrology Neurology Occupational medicine Palliative care Pain management Pulmonary Radiation oncology Rehabilitation Respiratory Rheumatology Spinal Transplants
Obstetrics and gynaecology	Family planning Gynaecology Gynaecology oncology Obstetrics
Pathology	Pathology
Paediatrics	Adolescent health Neonatal Paediatric medicine Paediatric surgery
Pharmacy	Dispensing pharmacy
Psychiatric	Psychiatry
Surgical	Breast Burns Cardiac surgery Colorectal Craniofacial Ear, nose and throat Fracture General surgery Neurosurgery Ophthalmology Orthopaedics Plastic surgery Pre-admission Pre-anaesthesia Thoracic surgery Urology Vascular surgery
Emergency department	Emergency department

An emergency department provides triage, assessment, care and/or treatment for patients suffering from medical condition/s and/or injury.

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