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Definition

The urgency of the patient's need for medical and nursing care as assessed at triage, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Triage category code N ".
Data Type Number
Format N
Maximum character length 1
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 Resuscitation: immediate (within seconds)
2 Emergency: within 10 minutes
3 Urgent: within 30 minutes
4 Semi-urgent: within 60 minutes
5 Non-urgent: within 120 minutes

Comments

Origin:
National Triage Scale, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 2
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 15
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 1