Format/length:	see DATE
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Notes:
The date offered for admission to hospital to start a HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL.

If a PATIENT indicates that he/she is unable to take up a reasonable telephone or written offer, the refusal should be counted as a self-deferral, and the waiting time calculation is counted from the first offered admission date.

For a verbal offer to be deemed reasonable, the patient is to be offered a minimum of two admission dates, with at least three weeks notice before the first of these offered admission dates.

For a written offer to be deemed reasonable, the patient is to be offered an admission date with a minimum of three weeks notice. 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	OFFERED FOR ADMISSION DATES