Patient—ready-for-care date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Ready-for-care date |
METEOR identifier: | 448141 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
Definition: | The date, in the opinion of the treating clinician, on which a patient is ready to commence treatment, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
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Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Patient—ready-for-care date |
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METEOR identifier: | 448137 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
Definition: | The date, in the opinion of the treating clinician, on which a patient is ready to commence treatment. |
Object class: | Patient |
Property: | Ready-for-care date |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
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METEOR identifier: | 270566 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 09/08/2023 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | The day of a particular month and year. |
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Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 13/11/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Conditional obligation: This item must be completed if Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY. DSS specific information: The purpose of collecting the ready-for-care date in the RWT DSS is to enable the calculation of waiting times for radiotherapy treatment. Illustrative guidelines and examples of how to determine a ready-for-care date are included below. Category A: Factors that are expected to influence the ready-for-care date Patients are ready for care on the date on which the Radiation Oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, unless:
In situations 1 to 4, above, the ready-for-care date is the first date the patient is ready for care following these delays. In situation 5, above, the patient is not given a ready-for-care date. Category B: Factors that are not expected to influence the ready-for-care date The following are delays not expected to influence the ready-for-care date. Therefore, the patient is ready-for-care on the date on which the Radiation Oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, or the first date following a category A delay as listed above, even though:
Changing the ready-for-care date Once a ready-for-care date is set, the only justification for changing it is if one or more of the category A delays described above occur on or before the ready-for-care date. For example, if a patient takes a longer or shorter time than anticipated to heal from pre-radiotherapy surgery, the ready-for-care date may be changed to reflect this. If one or more of these delays happens after the ready-for-care date, the ready-for-care date should remain unchanged. This reflects the fact that had the patient been able to receive radiotherapy as soon as they were ready for care, the second delay would not have occurred. The exception to this rule is where there is a change to either the urgency or intent of treatment; in this case the ready-for-care date should be adjusted to reflect the new clinical assessment of the ready-for-care date. Example scenarios Example scenario i: During a consultation on 18 June, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. There are no category A delays, meaning that the patient's ready-for-care date is 18 June. However, there is a waiting time of 40 days to start a course of radiotherapy treatment. This is clinically unacceptable to the radiation oncologist, so the patient is prescribed chemotherapy to fill the gap caused by the wait for radiotherapy. However, chemotherapy is not the first choice for treatment and would not have been prescribed if radiotherapy had been available within a clinically acceptable timeframe. Therefore, the patient's ready-for-care date does not change—it remains 18 June. The period where the patient is having chemotherapy, and the subsequent recovery period, has no bearing on the ready-for-care date. Example scenario ii: During a consultation on 9 August, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. Although the patient is medically ready for treatment, family and work obligations result in the patient requesting a delay of 10 days. The ready-for-care date is therefore 19 August. The service provider has no appropriate timeslots for starting the course of radiotherapy treatment until a further 20 days after the ready-for-care date. The ready-for-care date remains 19 August, with the delay until the start date unrelated, in this case, to the patient's requested delay. Example scenario iii: A clinician determines that a patient requires surgery prior to radiotherapy. The expected recovery time for the surgery is 10 days. The first date after the 10-day healing phase is 30 November and this date is the patient's ready-for-care date. This date happens to be a Friday. For this patient, there is a clinical requirement that the first 5 days of treatment be on consecutive days, however the service is not open on the weekend, therefore the service cannot offer to start the course of radiotherapy treatment until the following Monday. This is a category B delay, therefore, the ready-for-care date should remain the date of the Friday 30 November. Example scenario iv: A patient is deemed ready for care at a consultation with a radiation oncologist on 23 February. There are no category A delays. Therefore the patient's ready-for-care date is 23 February. If pre-treatment planning and simulation for that patient takes 7 days to complete, the ready-for-care date remains 23 February. The ready-for-care date is not moved 7 days later. Example scenario v: A radiation oncologist deems a patient will be ready for care on 29 March. Treatment is not available on 29 March and the start date is planned to be 18 April. On 6 April the patient becomes not ready for care for 20 days (regardless of whether this reason is category A (e.g. treatment for another health condition) or category B (e.g. the patient is sent for other treatment to relieve symptoms while they wait for radiotherapy)). On 26 April the patient becomes ready for care once again. This does not change the ready-for-care date. That is, the time between the ready-for-care date and the start of a course of radiotherapy treatment can include a period where the patient is not ready for care. The rationale for this is that had the patient received radiotherapy treatment on the ready-for-care date (i.e. before the period when the patient became not ready for care), the delay caused by the period of being not ready for care would not have occurred. Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2013-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 DSS specific information: The purpose of collecting the ready-for-care date in the Radiotherapy waiting times DSS is to enable the calculation of waiting times for radiotherapy treatment. Illustrative guidelines and examples of how to determine a ready-for-care date are included below. Category A: Factors that are expected to influence the ready-for-care date Patients are ready for care on the date on which the radiation oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, unless:
In situations 1 to 4, above, the ready-for-care date is the first date the patient is ready for care following these delays. In situation 5, above, the patient is not given a ready-for-care date. Category B: Factors that are not expected to influence the ready-for-care date The following are delays not expected to influence the ready-for-care date. Therefore, the patient is ready-for-care on the date on which the radiation oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, or the first date following a category A delay as listed above, even though:
Changing the ready-for-care date Once a ready-for-care date is set, the only justification for changing it is if one or more of the category A delays described above occur on or before the ready-for-care date. For example, if a patient takes a longer or shorter time than anticipated to heal from pre-radiotherapy surgery, the ready-for-care date may be changed to reflect this. If one or more of these delays happens after the ready-for-care date, the ready-for-care date should remain unchanged. This reflects the fact that had the patient been able to receive radiotherapy as soon as they were ready for care, the second delay would not have occurred. The exception to this rule is where there is a change to either the urgency or intent of treatment; in this case the ready-for-care date should be adjusted to reflect the new clinical assessment of the ready-for-care date. Example scenarios Example scenario i: During a consultation on 18 June, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. There are no category A delays, meaning that the patient's ready-for-care date is 18 June. However, there is a waiting time of 40 days to start a course of radiotherapy treatment. This is clinically unacceptable to the radiation oncologist, so the patient is prescribed chemotherapy to fill the gap caused by the wait for radiotherapy. However, chemotherapy is not the first choice for treatment and would not have been prescribed if radiotherapy had been available within a clinically acceptable timeframe. Therefore, the patient's ready-for-care date does not change—it remains 18 June. The period where the patient is having chemotherapy, and the subsequent recovery period, has no bearing on the ready-for-care date. Example scenario ii: During a consultation on 9 August, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. Although the patient is medically ready for treatment, family and work obligations result in the patient requesting a delay of 10 days. The ready-for-care date is therefore 19 August. The service provider has no appropriate timeslots for starting the course of radiotherapy treatment until a further 20 days after the ready-for-care date. The ready-for-care date remains 19 August, with the delay until the start date unrelated, in this case, to the patient's requested delay. Example scenario iii: A clinician determines that a patient requires surgery prior to radiotherapy. The expected recovery time for the surgery is 10 days. The first date after the 10-day healing phase is 30 November and this date is the patient's ready-for-care date. This date happens to be a Friday. For this patient, there is a clinical requirement that the first 5 days of treatment be on consecutive days, however the service is not open on the weekend, therefore the service cannot offer to start the course of radiotherapy treatment until the following Monday. This is a category B delay, therefore, the ready-for-care date should remain the date of the Friday, i.e. 30 November. Example scenario iv: A patient is deemed ready for care at a consultation with a radiation oncologist on 23 February. There are no category A delays. Therefore the patient's ready-for-care date is 23 February. If pre-treatment planning and simulation for that patient takes 7 days to complete, the ready-for-care date remains 23 February. The ready-for-care date is not moved 7 days later. Example scenario v: A radiation oncologist deems a patient will be ready for care on 29 March. Treatment is not available on 29 March and the start date is planned to be 18 April. On 6 April the patient becomes not ready for care for 20 days (regardless of whether this reason is category A (e.g. treatment for another health condition) or category B (e.g. the patient is sent for other treatment to relieve symptoms while they wait for radiotherapy)). On 26 April the patient becomes ready for care once again. This does not change the ready-for-care date. That is, the time between the ready-for-care date and the start of a course of radiotherapy treatment can include a period where the patient is not ready for care. The rationale for this is that had the patient received radiotherapy treatment on the ready-for-care date (i.e. before the period when the patient became not ready for care), the delay caused by the period of being not ready for care would not have occurred. Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS 2015-2018 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 DSS specific information: The purpose of collecting the ready-for-care date in the Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS is to enable the calculation of waiting times for radiotherapy treatment. Illustrative guidelines and examples of how to determine a ready-for-care date are included below. Category A: Factors that are expected to influence the ready-for-care date Patients are ready for care on the date on which the radiation oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, unless:
In situations 1 to 4, above, the ready-for-care date is the first date the patient is ready for care following these delays. In situation 5, above, the patient is not given a ready-for-care date. Category B: Factors that are not expected to influence the ready-for-care date The following are delays not expected to influence the ready-for-care date. Therefore, the patient is ready-for-care on the date on which the radiation oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, or the first date following a category A delay as listed above, even though:
Changing the ready-for-care date Once a ready-for-care date is set, the only justification for changing it is if one or more of the category A delays described above occur on or before the ready-for-care date. For example, if a patient takes a longer or shorter time than anticipated to heal from pre-radiotherapy surgery, the ready-for-care date may be changed to reflect this. If one or more of these delays happens after the ready-for-care date, the ready-for-care date should remain unchanged. This reflects the fact that had the patient been able to receive radiotherapy as soon as they were ready for care, the second delay would not have occurred. The exception to this rule is where there is a change to either the urgency or intent of treatment; in this case the ready-for-care date should be adjusted to reflect the new clinical assessment of the ready-for-care date. Example scenarios Example scenario i: During a consultation on 18 June, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. There are no category A delays, meaning that the patient's ready-for-care date is 18 June. However, there is a waiting time of 40 days to start a course of radiotherapy treatment. This is clinically unacceptable to the radiation oncologist, so the patient is prescribed chemotherapy to fill the gap caused by the wait for radiotherapy. However, chemotherapy is not the first choice for treatment and would not have been prescribed if radiotherapy had been available within a clinically acceptable timeframe. Therefore, the patient's ready-for-care date does not change—it remains 18 June. The period where the patient is having chemotherapy, and the subsequent recovery period, has no bearing on the ready-for-care date. Example scenario ii: During a consultation on 9 August, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. Although the patient is medically ready for treatment, family and work obligations result in the patient requesting a delay of 10 days. The ready-for-care date is therefore 19 August. The service provider has no appropriate timeslots for starting the course of radiotherapy treatment until a further 20 days after the ready-for-care date. The ready-for-care date remains 19 August, with the delay until the start date unrelated, in this case, to the patient's requested delay. Example scenario iii: A clinician determines that a patient requires surgery prior to radiotherapy. The expected recovery time for the surgery is 10 days. The first date after the 10-day healing phase is 30 November and this date is the patient's ready-for-care date. This date happens to be a Friday. For this patient, there is a clinical requirement that the first 5 days of treatment be on consecutive days, however the service is not open on the weekend, therefore the service cannot offer to start the course of radiotherapy treatment until the following Monday. This is a category B delay, therefore, the ready-for-care date should remain the date of the Friday, i.e. 30 November. Example scenario iv: A patient is deemed ready for care at a consultation with a radiation oncologist on 23 February. There are no category A delays. Therefore the patient's ready-for-care date is 23 February. If pre-treatment planning and simulation for that patient takes 7 days to complete, the ready-for-care date remains 23 February. The ready-for-care date is not moved 7 days later. Example scenario v: A radiation oncologist deems a patient will be ready for care on 29 March. Treatment is not available on 29 March and the start date is planned to be 18 April. On 6 April the patient becomes not ready for care for 20 days (regardless of whether this reason is category A (e.g. treatment for another health condition) or category B (e.g. the patient is sent for other treatment to relieve symptoms while they wait for radiotherapy)). On 26 April the patient becomes ready for care once again. This does not change the ready-for-care date. That is, the time between the ready-for-care date and the start of a course of radiotherapy treatment can include a period where the patient is not ready for care. The rationale for this is that had the patient received radiotherapy treatment on the ready-for-care date (i.e. before the period when the patient became not ready for care), the delay caused by the period of being not ready for care would not have occurred. Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS 2018- Health, Standard 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 DSS specific information: The purpose of collecting the ready-for-care date in the Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS is to enable the calculation of waiting times for radiotherapy treatment. Illustrative guidelines and examples of how to determine a ready-for-care date are included below. Category A: Factors that are expected to influence the ready-for-care date Patients are ready for care on the date on which the radiation oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, unless:
In situations 1 to 4, above, the ready-for-care date is the first date the patient is ready for care following these delays. In situation 5, above, the patient is not given a ready-for-care date. Category B: Factors that are not expected to influence the ready-for-care date The following are delays not expected to influence the ready-for-care date. Therefore, the patient is ready-for-care on the date on which the radiation oncologist and the patient agree to radiotherapy treatment, or the first date following a category A delay as listed above, even though:
Changing the ready-for-care date Once a ready-for-care date is set, the only justification for changing it is if one or more of the category A delays described above occur on or before the ready-for-care date. For example, if a patient takes a longer or shorter time than anticipated to heal from pre-radiotherapy surgery, the ready-for-care date may be changed to reflect this. If one or more of these delays happens after the ready-for-care date, the ready-for-care date should remain unchanged. This reflects the fact that had the patient been able to receive radiotherapy as soon as they were ready for care, the second delay would not have occurred. The exception to this rule is where there is a change to either the urgency or intent of treatment; in this case the ready-for-care date should be adjusted to reflect the new clinical assessment of the ready-for-care date. Example scenarios Example scenario i: During a consultation on 18 June, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. There are no category A delays, meaning that the patient's ready-for-care date is 18 June. However, there is a waiting time of 40 days to start a course of radiotherapy treatment. This is clinically unacceptable to the radiation oncologist, so the patient is prescribed chemotherapy to fill the gap caused by the wait for radiotherapy. However, chemotherapy is not the first choice for treatment and would not have been prescribed if radiotherapy had been available within a clinically acceptable timeframe. Therefore, the patient's ready-for-care date does not change—it remains 18 June. The period where the patient is having chemotherapy, and the subsequent recovery period, has no bearing on the ready-for-care date. Example scenario ii: During a consultation on 9 August, a radiation oncologist recommends radiotherapy and their patient agrees to this treatment. Although the patient is medically ready for treatment, family and work obligations result in the patient requesting a delay of 10 days. The ready-for-care date is therefore 19 August. The service provider has no appropriate timeslots for starting the course of radiotherapy treatment until a further 20 days after the ready-for-care date. The ready-for-care date remains 19 August, with the delay until the start date unrelated, in this case, to the patient's requested delay. Example scenario iii: A clinician determines that a patient requires surgery prior to radiotherapy. The expected recovery time for the surgery is 10 days. The first date after the 10-day healing phase is 30 November and this date is the patient's ready-for-care date. This date happens to be a Friday. For this patient, there is a clinical requirement that the first 5 days of treatment be on consecutive days, however the service is not open on the weekend, therefore the service cannot offer to start the course of radiotherapy treatment until the following Monday. This is a category B delay, therefore, the ready-for-care date should remain the date of the Friday, i.e. 30 November. Example scenario iv: A patient is deemed ready for care at a consultation with a radiation oncologist on 23 February. There are no category A delays. Therefore the patient's ready-for-care date is 23 February. If pre-treatment planning and simulation for that patient takes 7 days to complete, the ready-for-care date remains 23 February. The ready-for-care date is not moved 7 days later. Example scenario v: A radiation oncologist deems a patient will be ready for care on 29 March. Treatment is not available on 29 March and the start date is planned to be 18 April. On 6 April the patient becomes not ready for care for 20 days (regardless of whether this reason is category A (e.g. treatment for another health condition) or category B (e.g. the patient is sent for other treatment to relieve symptoms while they wait for radiotherapy)). On 26 April the patient becomes ready for care once again. This does not change the ready-for-care date. That is, the time between the ready-for-care date and the start of a course of radiotherapy treatment can include a period where the patient is not ready for care. The rationale for this is that had the patient received radiotherapy treatment on the ready-for-care date (i.e. before the period when the patient became not ready for care), the delay caused by the period of being not ready for care would not have occurred. WA Health Non-Admitted Patient Activity and Wait List Data Collection (NAPAAWL DC) 2013-14 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 DSS specific information: In the NAPAAWL DC this data item has:
WA Health Non-Admitted Patient Activity and Wait List Data Collection (NAPAAWL DC) 2014-15 WA Health, Standard 24/04/2015 DSS specific information: In the NAPAAWL DC this data item has:
WA Health Non-Admitted Patient Activity and Wait List Data Collection (NAPAAWL DC) 2016-17 WA Health, Standard 30/05/2017 DSS specific information: In the NAPAAWL DC this data item has:
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Implementation in Indicators: | National Healthcare Agreement PIa: Proportion of emergency radiotherapy treatment started within the emergency timeframe Health, Qualified 12/01/2016 National Healthcare Agreement PIb: Waiting times for non-emergency radiotherapy Health, Qualified 12/01/2016 |