Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269479 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | A patient with the lowest level of clinical urgency for an awaited procedure who has been on the waiting list for elective surgery for more than one year. |
Context: | Elective surgery: The numbers and proportions of patients with extended waits are measures of hospital performance in relation to patient access to elective hospital care. |