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: | 514023 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 |
| 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) 8th 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 | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Elective surgery comprises elective care where the procedures required by patients are listed in the surgical operations section of the Medicare Benefits Schedule, with the exclusion of specific procedures frequently done by non-surgical clinicians. Elective care is care that, in the opinion of the treating clinician, is necessary and admission for which can be delayed for at least twenty-four hours. CODE 1 Elective surgery All elective surgery, that is excluding procedures listed in the exclusion list for Code 2 below, should be included in this code. CODE 2 Other Patients awaiting the following procedures should be classified as Code 2 - Other:
These procedure terms are also defined by the Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) codes which are listed in the Comments field below. This coded list is the recommended, but optional, method for determining whether a patient is classified as requiring elective surgery or other care. |
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| Comments: | The table of Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) (8th edition) procedure codes was prepared by the National Centre for Classification in Health. Some codes were excluded from the list on the basis that they are usually performed by non-surgeon clinicians. A more extensive and detailed listing of procedure descriptors is under development. This will replace the list in the Guide for use to more readily facilitate the identification of the exclusions when the list of codes is not used. ACHI codes for the excluded procedures: Biopsy (needle) of: Bronchoscopy (including fibre-optic bronchoscopy): Dental procedures not attracting a Medicare rebate: Endoscopy of biliary tract and pancreas: Endoscopy of oesophagus: Endoscopy of large intestine, rectum and anus: Endovascular interventional procedures: In vitro fertilisation: Miscellaneous cardiac procedures: Miscellaneous lower urinary tract procedures: Obstetric: Organ or tissue transplant: Panendoscopy: Peritoneal and renal dialysis: Procedures associated with obstetrics: Other diagnostic and non-surgical procedures: |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Reference documents: | National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) 2010. The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) – Eighth Edition - Tabular list of interventions and Alphabetic index of interventions. Sydney: NCCH, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. |
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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 2013- and the Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 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 02/05/2013 Has been superseded by Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N Health, Superseded 14/10/2021 See also Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2013-15 Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 See also Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2013-15 Health, Superseded 12/06/2015 |