Patients who require an elective procedure should be assigned an urgency category by the treating clinician. The urgency category should be: - appropriate to the patient and their clinical situation
- not influenced by the availability of hospital or surgeon resources.
The following codes are required for the collection of clinical urgency for Elective Surgery Waiting List Patients and the definition of the values are as follows: 1 - Urgent | Procedures that are clinically indicated within 30 days | 2 - Semi-urgent | Procedures that are clinically indicated within 90 days | 3 - Non-urgent | Procedures that are clinically indicated within 365 days |
The remaining values are included in the hospital systems' reference file and are related to others services provided for patient management and should not be used for allocation to Elective Surgery Waiting List Patients. |