Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269607 |
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| 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. |
Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor)
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Elective surgery waiting list episode |
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| Definition: | The period between entry to and removal from an elective surgery waiting list. |
| Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australia Institute of Health and Welfare |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Surgical specialty |
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| Definition: | A descriptor of an area of clinical expertise in surgery. |
| Property group: | Labour characteristics |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty of scheduled doctor
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor), code NN
Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor), code NN
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