Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269476 |
Registration status: | National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 07/12/2016 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 |
Definition: | The reason why a patient is removed from the waiting list. |
Context: | Elective surgery: Routine admission for the awaited procedure is only one reason why patients are removed from the waiting list. Each reason for removal provides different information. These data are necessary to augment census and throughput data. For example, after an audit the number of patients on a list would be expected to reduce. If an audit were undertaken immediately prior to a census the numbers on the list may appear low and not in keeping with the number of additions to the list and patients admitted from the list. |