Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 20b-Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2013 |
METEOR identifier: | 497217 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Description: | NO DATA FOR 2013 REPORTING The percentage of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time, by urgency category. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2013) Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care Health, Standard 07/07/2010 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Elective surgery as defined in the Elective Surgery Waiting Times (removals and census) National Minimum Data Sets (NMDSs). Waiting time is as defined in Waiting time at removal from elective surgery waiting list. 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:
For the purposes of reporting, patients are reported as the final urgency category they were when treated. When a patient's urgency category changes, existing NMDS business rules will apply. Analysis by state and territory based on location of service. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time. |
Numerator data elements: | |
Denominator: | Number of patients who received elective surgery. |
Disaggregation: | State and territory |
Disaggregation data elements: | |
Comments: | The scope of the indicator is all hospitals reporting to the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection, which is patients removed from waiting lists for elective surgery which are managed by public acute hospitals. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN.N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
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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: Minor work required, the measure needs minor work to meet the intention of the indicator. Urgency category and 'not ready for care' definitions are currently being reviewed for Standing Council on Health (SCoH) by the AIHW and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b-Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN Health, Superseded 13/12/2011 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 32-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |