Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Clinical urgency |
METEOR identifier: | 270008 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | A clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires elective hospital care, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency |
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METEOR identifier: | 269481 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | A clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires elective hospital care. |
Context: | Elective surgery: Categorisation of waiting list patients by clinical urgency assists hospital management and clinicians in the prioritisation of their workloads. It gives health consumers a reasonable estimate of the maximum time they should expect to wait for care. Clinical urgency classification allows a meaningful measure of system performance to be calculated, namely the number or proportion of patients who wait for times in excess of the maximum desirable time limit for their urgency category (metadata item the overdue patient status). |
Object class: | Elective surgery waiting list episode |
Property: | Clinical urgency |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Clinical urgency code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 270635 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | A code set representing the clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires hospital admission. |