Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269614 |
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| Definition: | Date on which the hospital takes a point in time (census) count of and characterisation of patients on the waiting list. |
| Context: | Elective surgery: This metadata item is necessary for the calculation of the waiting time until a census. |
Hospital census (of elective surgery waitlist patients)—census date
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Hospital census |
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| Definition: | A point in time count by a hospital of all its admitted patients and/or patients currently on a waiting list. |
| Context: | Admitted patient care. |
| Specialisation of: | Service/care event |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Census date |
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| Definition: | The date on which a population is officially enumerated and characterised. |
| Property group: | Performance indicators |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Hospital census (of elective surgery waitlist patients)—census date, DDMMYYYY
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