Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269482 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/06/2020 |
Definition: | An overdue patient is one whose wait has exceeded the time that has been determined as clinically desirable in relation to the urgency category to which they have been assigned. |
Context: | Elective surgery: The numbers and proportions of overdue patients represent a measure of the hospital's performance in the provision of elective hospital care. |