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Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2012-13

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Definition

The scope of this national minimum data set is patients removed from waiting lists for elective surgery (as defined in Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N) which are managed by public acute hospitals. 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 Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N), but this is not part of the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) for elective surgery waiting times.

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

Removals data:

Data are collected for patients who have been removed from an elective surgery waiting list (for admission or another reason). Patients who were 'ready for care' and patients who were 'not ready for care' at the time of removal are included.

There are two different types of data collected for this national minimum data set (census data and removals data) and the scope and list of data elements associated with each is different.

For the purposes of this NMDS, public hospitals include hospitals which are set up to provide services for public patients (as public hospitals do), but which are managed privately.

The inclusion of public patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists managed by private hospitals will be investigated in the future.

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—indicator procedure, code NN String 2 mandatory 1
Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N Number 1 conditional 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 list removal date, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:

Right justified and zero filled

Removal date ≥ date of birth

Removal date ≤ listing date for care

 Date/Time 8 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 - - mandatory 1
Person—Indigenous status, code N Number 1 mandatory 1

Comments

Comments:

There are two different types of data collected for this national minimum data set (census data and removals data) and the scope and list of data elements associated with each is different.

For the purposes of this NMDS, public hospitals include hospitals which are set up to provide services for public patients (as public hospitals do), but which are managed privately.

The inclusion of public patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists managed by private hospitals will be investigated in the future.

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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