National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2013
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Progress measure |
| Short name: | PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2013 |
| METEOR identifier: | 497219 |
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| Description: | Median and 90th percentile waiting times for elective surgery in public hospitals, including by indicator procedure. |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2013) Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
| Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
| Quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting time in days, 2013 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | Elective surgery as defined in the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection. Indicator procedure as defined in Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN. Waiting time as defined in Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]. 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:
Analysis by state and territory based on location of service. Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as number of days. |
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| Computation: | Number of days waited at 50th and 90th percentile. Calculated overall and for each indicator procedure. |
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| Denominator: | Not applicable |
| Disaggregation: | 2011–12—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total) by: 2010–11 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the National Hospital Morbidity Database)—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total): 2010–11 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—State and territory, by: 2010–11 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—Nationally, by: SEIFA IRSD deciles (linked data) 2010-11 and 2011-12 — Nationally, by indicator procedure, by peer group, by Indigenous status, by remoteness. Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2013 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report: 2011–12. Indicator procedures are a subset of all procedures, e.g. in 2007–08, approximately 65% of removals did not fall into one of the defined indicator procedures. The scope of the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection is patients removed from waiting lists for elective surgery which are managed by public acute hospitals. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Median |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
| Format: | N[NN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) Frequency Annual Data custodian Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection Frequency Annual Data custodian Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2014
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2013
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012
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