The Tasmanian Emergency Department Dataset captures presentations at the four public hospital emergency departments in Tasmania. The dataset contains demographic, administrative and clinical data specific to each presentation.

Contains all patient episodes where the episode of care took place wholly within one of the four Tasmanian Emergency Departments (Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital, North West Regional Hospital, Mersey Hospital) which meet the following criteria:
- Purposely designed and equipped area with designated assessment, treatment and resuscitation areas;
- Ability to provide resuscitation, stabilisation and initial management of all emergencies;
- Availability of medical staff in the hospital 24 hours a day;
- Designated emergency department nursing staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and a designated emergency department nursing unit manager.

Patients who were dead on arrival are in scope if an emergency department clinician certified the death of the patient. Patients who leave the emergency department after being triaged and then advised of alternative treatment options are in scope.

Included in this dataset are episodes of care from 2019/20 financial year onward which originated in the Emergency Department and were admitted and subsequently concluded their treatment in the Emergency Department. These patients are classified as ED Only Admits and are excluded from the Admitted Patient Data Collection.

As these episodes were completed wholly within the Emergency Department they are considered to be non-admitted Emergency Department activity only.

A maximum of one diagnosis code is collected per Emergency Attendance, which may impact cohort selection with this as the basis.

Administrative. The purpose of the collection is to support efficient and effective delivery of patient care in an emergency setting. The collection also assists in analysis of patterns in presentations to support improved care planning and healthy outcomes for the Tasmanian population.

Tasmanian state data

Tasmanian Health Service Act 2018