Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor), code NN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Surgical specialty |
METEOR identifier: | 270146 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | The area of clinical expertise held by the doctor who will perform the elective surgery, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor) |
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METEOR identifier: | 269607 |
Registration status: | National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 |
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. |
Object class: | Elective surgery waiting list episode |
Property: | Surgical specialty |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Elective surgery code NN |
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METEOR identifier: | 270728 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | A code set representing types of elective surgery. |
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