Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269607 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | The area of clinical expertise held by the doctor who will perform the elective surgery. |
Context: | Elective surgery: Many hospitals manage their waiting lists on a specialty basis. Current data shows that the total ready-for-care times waited and numbers of long wait patients vary significantly between specialties. Furthermore, the hospital capacity to handle the demand for elective surgery varies with specialty. |