Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, EFF5 - Elective Surgery - Number of Hospital initiated postponements for pre and post admission for Elective Surgery procedures, 2016
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Hospital Initiated Postponements |
METEOR identifier: | 645606 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 |
Description: | This KPI measures the number of hospital initiated postponements and is expressed as a percentage (result). |
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Indicator set: | Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019 |
Outcome area: | Elective surgery access Tasmanian Health, Standard 07/12/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Determine the number of patients that are postponed by the hospital either pre or post admission. |
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Computation: | Numerator ÷ Denominator
Calculated a result for each region.
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Numerator: | Count the total number of Hospital Initiated Postponements for patients waiting on the Elective Surgery Waiting List. |
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Denominator: | Total number of bookings made, excluding booking cancellations listed to be excluded. |
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Disaggregation: | Specified disaggregation: Hospital and region. |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN[N] |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2015, AES9 - Elective Surgery - Number of Hospital initiated postponements for pre and post admission for Elective Surgery procedures, 2015 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/12/2016 |