CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION
The principal type of Critical Care clinical service provided within the WARD to which a PATIENT was admitted during a CRITICAL CARE PERIOD.
Description
The principal type of Critical Care clinical service provided within the WARD to which a PATIENT was admitted during a CRITICAL CARE PERIOD.
Further detail on CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTIONS is described on CRITICAL CARE PERIOD.
Note:
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National Code descriptions have been updated to remove National Code headings and add prefixes where required. The Data Set specifications that contain this item will be updated in the next version of the Information Standard where it is not already correct.
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Facilities are described by the category of PATIENT predominantly treated, as follows:
National Codes
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 01 |
Non-specific, general adult critical care
PATIENTS predominate
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| 02 |
Surgical adult
PATIENTS (unspecified specialty)
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| 03 |
Medical adult
PATIENTS (unspecified specialty)
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| 05 |
Neurosciences adult
PATIENTS predominate
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| 06 |
Cardiac surgical adult
PATIENTS predominate
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| 07 |
Thoracic surgical adult
PATIENTS predominate
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| 08 |
Burns and plastic surgery adult
PATIENTS predominate
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| 09 |
Spinal adult
PATIENTS predominate
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| 10 |
Renal adult
PATIENTS predominate
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| 11 |
Liver adult
PATIENTS predominate
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| 12 |
Obstetric and gynaecology adult critical care
PATIENTS predominate
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| 90 | |
| 04 |
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (Paediatric critical care
PATIENTS predominate)
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| 16 |
WARD for children and young people
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| 17 | High Dependency Unit for children and young people |
| 18 | Renal Unit for children and young people |
| 19 | Burns Unit for children and young people |
| 92 |
Non standard
LOCATION using the operating department for children and young people
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| 13 |
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Neonatal critical care
PATIENTS predominate)
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| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 91 |
Other settings: non standard
LOCATION using the operating department
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Also Known As
This Attribute is also known by these names:
| Context | Alias |
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| Plural | CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTIONS |
Where Used
| Type | Link | How used |
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| Class | CRITICAL CARE PERIOD | references in description CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION |
| Data Element | CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION | references in description CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION |
| Data Set | Neonatal Critical Care Minimum Data Set | references in description CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION |
| Data Set | Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set | references in description CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION |
| Class | WARD | has an attribute CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION of type CRITICAL CARE UNIT FUNCTION |