Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Hospital Initiated Postponements |
METEOR identifier: | 615451 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 |
Description: | This KPI is expressed as a percentage (result). This KPI measures the number of hospital initiated postponements. |
Rationale: | A higher number of postponements might indicate an issue with service planning at the site, or that unplanned emergency surgery has taken precedence. |
Indicator set: | Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2015 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 12/12/2016 |
Outcome area: | Elective surgery access Tasmanian Health, Standard 07/12/2016 |