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REMOVALS OTHER THAN ADMISSION is the total number of PATIENTS classified as booked admissions or WAITING LIST admissions to be admitted to a Hospital Provider Spell, who were removed from an ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST within the REPORTING PERIOD for reasons other than admission.

It includes private PATIENTS and PATIENTS who are Overseas Visitors, it excludes elective planned admissions and Suspended Patients.

It is the total of number of removals from elective admission for PATIENTS where:

	a.	the ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST REMOVAL REASON is National Code 2 'PATIENT admitted as an emergency for the same condition' or 3 'PATIENT died' or 4 'PATIENT removed for other reasons'
and
	b.	the ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST REMOVAL REASON is within the period of the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE
		Within the REPORTING PERIOD includes where the DATE is the same as the START DATE or END DATE
and
	c.	no ELECTIVE ADMISSION SUSPENSION DETAIL has been recorded
		or
		if recorded, the LIST SUSPENSION END DATE is before the ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST REMOVAL DATE i.e. no period of suspension is still on-going at the DATE of removal. Where no LIST SUSPENSION END DATE has been recorded then the period of suspension is still active and should be excluded from the count
and
	d.	the ELECTIVE ADMISSION TYPE is National Code 11 'Waiting list admission' or 12 'Booked admission'

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	REMOVALS OTHER THAN ADMISSIONS