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Elective surgery waiting times cluster

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Definition

The scope of the Elective surgery waiting times data element cluster is patients on elective surgery waiting lists managed by public acute hospitals, in either category 1 or 2 of the 'Reason for removals from elective surgery waiting list' data element.

This will include private patients treated in public hospitals, and may include public patients treated in private hospitals.

Hospitals may also collect information for other care (as defined in the 'Waiting list category' data element), but this is not part of the national minimum data set (NMDS) for Elective surgery waiting times.

Patients on waiting lists managed by hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, corrections authorities and Australia's external territories are not currently included.

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.

Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Elective care waiting list episode—listing date for care, DDMMYYYY Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N - - mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—extended wait patient indicator, code N - - mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN String 2 mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor), code NN - - mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN] Number 4 mandatory 1
Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN
Conditional Inclusion:
This is the establishment identifier of the contracting hospital and is reported for contracted patients only.
 - - conditional 1

Comments

Guide for use:

Outsourced or contracted patients

Public hospitals managing elective surgery waiting lists may either outsource elective surgery work to another hospital (public or private) or contract another hospital (public or private) to provide elective surgery on their behalf.

In such cases, the hospital where the outsourced or contracted elective surgery occurs is required to include the 'Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN' data element for the hospital managing the elective surgery waiting list as part of the Elective surgery waiting times data cluster.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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