Elective surgery waiting list episode—extended wait patient indicator, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Extended wait patient |
| METEOR identifier: | 269964 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
| Definition: | Whether a patient is an extended wait patient, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—extended wait patient indicator |
| Value Domain: | Extended wait patient indicator code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Extended wait patient |
| 2 | Other patient | |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | A patient is classified as an extended wait patient if the patient is in clinical urgency category 3 at the time of admission or at a census time and has been waiting for the elective surgery for more than one year. |
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| Comments: | This metadata item is used to identify clinical urgency category 3 patients who had waited longer than one year at admission or have waited longer than one year at the time of a census. An extended wait patient is not an overdue patient as there is no maximum desirable waiting time specified for patients in clinical urgency category 3 as they have been assessed as not having a clinically urgent need for the awaited procedure. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Is formed using Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at a census date), total days N[NNN] Health, Superseded 13/12/2011 Is formed using Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN] Health, Superseded 13/12/2011 Is re-engineered from  Extended wait patient, version 1, Derived DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.8 KB)No registration status |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2006-09 Health, Superseded 03/12/2008 Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2009-12 Health, Superseded 13/12/2011 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2006-09 Health, Superseded 03/12/2008 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2009-12 Health, Superseded 13/12/2011 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 |