Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Waiting list category |
METEOR identifier: | 470208 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 |
Definition: | The type of elective hospital care that a patient requires, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type |
Value Domain: | Elective care type code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 7th edition | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Elective surgery |
2 | Other |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) 2010. The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) – Seventh Edition - Tabular list of interventions and Alphabetic index of interventions. Sydney: NCCH, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. ACHI 7th edition is available for purchase from the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority Product Sales web site. Please see the following link for product information |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | This data element is necessary for determining whether patients are in scope for both the Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2012-2013 and the Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2012-2013 but is not explicitly included in either NMDS. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Hospital Access Program Waiting Lists Working Group Waiting Times Working Group |
Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N Health, Superseded 13/12/2011 Has been superseded by Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 See also Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 See also Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 |