Definition
A clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires elective hospital care.
Components
Data Element
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Data Element Concept (this item)Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency
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Object ClassElective surgery waiting list episode
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PropertyClinical urgency
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Conceptual DomainNone
Comments
Context:
Elective surgery:
Categorisation of waiting list patients by clinical urgency assists hospital management and clinicians in the prioritisation of their workloads. It gives health consumers a reasonable estimate of the maximum time they should expect to wait for care. Clinical urgency classification allows a meaningful measure of system performance to be calculated, namely the number or proportion of patients who wait for times in excess of the maximum desirable time limit for their urgency category (metadata item the overdue patient status).
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