Elective care waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code X[AXAA]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Clinical urgency |
METEOR identifier: | 453179 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 |
Definition: | A clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires hospital care, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency |
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METEOR identifier: | 598030 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 |
Definition: | A clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires elective surgery. |
Context: | Elective surgery: Categorisation of waiting list patients by clinical urgency assists hospital management and clinicians in the prioritisation of their workloads. It gives health consumers a reasonable estimate of the maximum time they should expect to wait for care. Clinical urgency classification allows a meaningful measure of system performance to be calculated, namely the number or proportion of patients who wait for times in excess of the maximum desirable time limit for their urgency category (metadata item the overdue patient status). |
Object class: | Elective surgery waiting list episode |
Property: | Clinical urgency |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee |
Reference documents: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2013. National definitions for elective surgery urgency categories: proposal for the Standing Council on Health. Cat. no. HSE 138. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 30 July 2015. http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=60129543979 |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Urgency status code X[AXAA] |
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METEOR identifier: | 452753 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 |
Definition: | A code set representing the assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires health treatment/assessment/consultation. |