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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termProgress measure
Short name:Help on this termPI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012
METEOR identifier:Help on this term435861
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 25/06/2013
Description:Help on this termMedian and 90th percentile waiting times for elective surgery in public hospitals, including by indicator procedure
Indicator set:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement (2012)
Health, Superseded 25/06/2013
Outcome area:Help on this termHospital and Related Care
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Health, Standard 07/07/2010
Quality statement:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

Elective surgery as defined in the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection.

Indicator procedure as defined in Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN.

Waiting time as defined in Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]. Calculated by jurisdictions by subtracting the listing date for care from the removal date, minus any days the patient was waiting with a less urgent clinical urgency category than their clinical urgency category at removal.

Waiting times are calculated for patients whose reason for removal was Admitted as an elective patient.

Analysis by state and territory based on location of service.

Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.

Presented as number of days.

Computation:Help on this term

Number of days waited at 50th and 90th percentile.

Calculated overall and for each indicator procedure.

Numerator:Help on this termNot applicable
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Elective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code N

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2009-12

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2009-12

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN

Data Source

National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

NMDS / DSS

Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2009-12

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]

Data Source

National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

NMDS / DSS

Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2009-12

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Denominator:Help on this termNot applicable
Disaggregation:Help on this term

2010–11—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total) by:

  • peer group
  • Indigenous status

      2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the National Hospital Morbidity Database)—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total):

    • peer group (unlinked data)
    • Indigenous status (linked or unlinked data, depending on data availability and quality)

        2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—State and territory, by:

      • remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)(linked data)
      • SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles (linked data)

          2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—Nationally, by SEIFA IRSD deciles (linked data)

          2007–08 and 2008–09 (revised for unlinked data from the NESWTDC), by indicator procedure (and total), by:

        • peer group

            Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.

  • Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
    Data Element / Data Set

    Data Element

    Public hospital peer group

    Data Source

    National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

    NMDS / DSS

    Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10

    Guide for use

    Data source type: Administrative by-product data

    Data Element / Data Set

    Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN

    Data Source

    National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

    NMDS / DSS

    Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10

    Guide for use

    Data source type: Administrative by-product data
    Used for disaggregation by state/territory

    Data Element / Data Set

    Person—Indigenous status, code N

    Data Source

    National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

    NMDS / DSS

    Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10

    Guide for use

    Data source type: Administrative by-product data

    Data Element / Data Set

    Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN

    Data Source

    National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

    NMDS / DSS

    Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2009-12

    Guide for use

    Data source type: Administrative by-product data

    Data Element / Data Set

    Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2008) NNNNN

    Data Source

    National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

    NMDS / DSS

    Admitted patient care NMDS 2009-10

    Guide for use

    Data source type: Administrative by-product data
    Used for disaggregation by remoteness and SEIFA IRSD

    Comments:Help on this term

    Most recent data available for 2012 CRC: 2010–11.

    Indicator procedures are a subset of all procedures, e.g. in 2007–08, approximately 65% of removals did not fall into one of the defined indicator procedures.

    The scope of the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection is patients removed from waiting lists for elective surgery which are managed by public acute hospitals.

    Representational attributes

    Representation class:Help on this termMedian
    Data type:Help on this termReal
    Unit of measure:Help on this termTime (e.g. days, hours)
    Format:Help on this termN[NN]

    Indicator conceptual framework

    Framework and dimensions:Help on this termAccessibility

    Data source attributes

    Data sources:Help on this term
    Data Source

    National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

    Frequency

    Annual

    Data custodian

    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

    Data Source

    National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

    Frequency

    Annual

    Data custodian

    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

    Accountability attributes

    Reporting requirements:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement
    Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Further data development / collection required:Help on this termSpecification: Long-term

    Source and reference attributes

    Relational attributes

    Related metadata references:Help on this term
    See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN
    • Health, Standard 02/05/2013
    • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Not progressed 01/07/2016
    See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN
    • Health, Superseded 13/12/2011
    See also 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 Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]
    • Health, Superseded 13/12/2011
    Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2013
    • Health, Superseded 30/04/2014
    Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2011
    • Health, Superseded 31/10/2011
    See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 45-Rates of services: Overnight separations, 2012
    • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
    See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 58-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2012
    • Health, Superseded 25/06/2013
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