National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Progress measure |
| Short name: | PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012 |
| METEOR identifier: | 435861 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
| Description: | Median and 90th percentile waiting times for elective surgery in public hospitals, including by indicator procedure |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
| Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care Health, Standard 07/07/2010 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
| Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | 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. |
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| Computation: | Number of days waited at 50th and 90th percentile. Calculated overall and for each indicator procedure. |
| Numerator: | Not applicable |
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| Denominator: | Not applicable |
| Disaggregation: | 2010–11—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total) by: 2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the National Hospital Morbidity Database)—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total): 2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—State and territory, by: 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: Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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| Comments: | 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: | Median |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
| Format: | N[NN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Long-term |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN Health, Retired 09/09/2022 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 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 |