Health service event—presentation time, hhmm

Guide for use:

For community health care, outreach services and services provided via telephone or telehealth, this may be the time at which the service provider presents to the patient or the telephone/telehealth session commences.

The time of patient presentation at the <dfn id="meteor.aihw.gov.au:24950:440d789c2f3b3">emergency department </dfn>is the earliest occasion of being registered clerically or triaged.

The time that the patient presents is not necessarily:

• the listing time for care (see listing date for care for an analogous concept), nor
• the time at which care is scheduled to be provided, nor
• the time at which commencement of care actually occurs (for admitted patients see admission time, for hospital non-admitted patient care and community health care see service commencement time).