Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Indicator procedure |
| METEOR identifier: | 334976 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 13/12/2011 |
| Definition: | Indicator procedure for which an elective surgery patient is waiting, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure |
| Value Domain: | Indicator procedure code NN |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Classification scheme: | Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 5th edition | |
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| Representation class: | Code | |
| Data type: | String | |
| Format: | NN | |
| Maximum character length: | 2 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 01 | Cataract extraction |
| 02 | Cholecystectomy | |
| 03 | Coronary artery bypass graft | |
| 04 | Cystoscopy | |
| 05 | Haemorrhoidectomy | |
| 06 | Hysterectomy | |
| 07 | Inguinal herniorrhaphy | |
| 08 | Myringoplasty | |
| 09 | Myringotomy | |
| 10 | Prostatectomy | |
| 11 | Septoplasty | |
| 12 | Tonsillectomy | |
| 13 | Total hip replacement | |
| 14 | Total knee replacement | |
| 15 | Varicose veins stripping and ligation | |
| Supplementary values: | 16 | Not applicable |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The procedure terms are defined by the Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) codes which are listed in comments below. Where a patient is awaiting more than one indicator procedure, all codes should be listed. This is because the intention is to count procedures rather than patients in this instance.
These are planned procedures for the waiting list, not what is actually performed during hospitalisation. |
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| Comments: | The list of indicator procedures may be reviewed from time to time. Some health authorities already code a larger number of waiting list procedures. Waiting list statistics for indicator procedures give a specific indication of performance in particular areas of elective care provision. It is not always possible to code all elective surgery procedures at the time of addition to the waiting list. Reasons for this include that the surgeon may be uncertain of the exact procedure to be performed, and that the large number of procedures possible and lack of consistent nomenclature would make coding errors likely. Furthermore, the increase in workload for clerical staff may not be acceptable. However, a relatively small number of procedures account for the bulk of the elective surgery workload. Therefore, a list of common procedures with a tendency to long waiting times is useful. Waiting time statistics by procedure are useful to patients and referring doctors. In addition, waiting time data by procedure assists in planning and resource allocation, audit and performance monitoring. The following is a list of ACHI (5th edition) codes, for the indicator procedures: Cataract extraction: 42698-00 [195] 42702-00 [195] 42702-01 [195] 42698-01 [196] 42702-02 [196] Cholecystectomy: 30443-00 [965] 30454-01 [965] 30455-00 [965] 30445-00 [965] 30446-00 [965] Coronary Artery bypass graft: 38497-00 [672] 38497-01 [672] 39497-02 [672] 38497-03 [672] 38497-04 [673] Cystoscopy: 36812-00 [1089] 36812-01 [1089] 36836-00 [1098] Haemorrhoidectomy: 32138-00 [941] 32132-00 [941] 32135-00 [941] 32135-01 [941] Hysterectomy: 35653-00 [1268] 35653-01 [1268] 35653-02 [1268] 35653-03 [1268] 35661-00 [1268] 35670-00 [1268] 35667-00 [1268] 35664-00 [1268] 35657-00 [1269] 35750-00 [1269] 35756-00 [1269] 35673-00 [1269] 35673-01 [1269] 35753-00 [1269] 35753-01 [1269] 35756-01 [1269] 35756-02 [1269] 35667-01 [1269] 35664-01 [1269] 90450-00 [989] 90450-01 [989] 90450-02 [989] Inguinal herniorrhaphy: 30614-03 [990] 30615-00 [997] 30609-03 [990] 30614-02 [990 30609-02 [990] Myringoplasty: 41527-00 [313] 41530-00 [313] 41533-01 [313] 41542-00 [315] 41635-01 [313] Myringotomy: 41626-00 [309] 41626-01 [309] 41632-00 [309] 41632-01 [309] Prostatectomy: 37203-00 [1165] 37203-02 [1165] 37207-00 [1166] 37207-01[1166]BR>37203-05 [1166] 37203-06 [1166] 37200-03[ 1167] 37200-04 [1167] 37209-00[1167] 37200-05 [1167] 90407-00 [1168] 37201-00 [1165] 37203-03 [1166] 37203-04 [1166] 37224-00 [1162] 37224-01 [1162] Septoplasty: 41671-02 [379] 41671-01 [379] 41671-03 [379] Tonsillectomy: 41789-00 [412] 41789-01 [412] Total hip replacement: 49318-00 [1489] 49319-00 [1489] 49324-00 [1492] 49327-00 [1492] 49330-00 [1492] 49333-00 [1492] 49345-00 [1492] Total knee replacement: 49518-00 [1518] 49519-00 [1518] 49521-00 [1519] 49521-01 [1519] 49521-02 [1519] 49521-03 [1519] 49524-00 [1519] 49524-01 [1519] 49527-00 [1524] 49530-00 [1523] 49530-01 [1523] 49533-00 [1523] 49554-00 [1523] 49534-00 [1519] Varicose veins stripping and ligation: 32508-00 [727] 32508-01 [727] 32511-00 [727] 32504-01 [728] 32505-00 [728] |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
| Reference documents: | National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) 2006. The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) – Fifth Edition - Tabular list of interventions and Alphabetic index of interventions. Sydney: NCCH, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 See also National Health Performance Authority, Hospital Performance: Patients who received their surgery within clinically recommended times 2011-12 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Superseded 28/05/2014 See also National Health Performance Authority, Hospital Performance: Patients who received their surgery within clinically recommended times 2012-13 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b-Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b-Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Elective surgery waiting times (census data) DSS 1 January 2012-30 June 2012 Health, Retired 13/12/2011 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) DSS 1 January 2012-30 June 2012 Health, Retired 13/12/2011 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 |
| Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Numerator
National Healthcare Agreement: P43-Unplanned/unexpected readmissions within 28 days of selected surgical admissions, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 43-Unplanned/unexpected readmissions within 28 days of selected surgical episodes of care, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013
Used as Disaggregation
National Health Performance Authority, Hospital Performance: Number of elective surgeries 2011-12 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Superseded 25/07/2013 National Health Performance Authority, Hospital Performance: Patients who waited more than 365 days for elective surgery 2011-12 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Superseded 28/05/2014 National Healthcare Agreement: P34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b-Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b-Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |