National Health Performance Authority, Hospital Performance: Patients who waited more than 365 days for elective surgery 2012-13
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Progress measure |
Short name:![]() | Patients who waited more than 365 days for elective surgery 2012-13 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 532932 |
Registration status:![]() | National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Description:![]() | The percentage of people who received their elective surgery and waited longer than one year (365 days) for their surgery. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description:![]() | The percentage of people who received their elective surgery and waited longer than one year (365 days) for their surgery. |
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Computation:![]() | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Waiting times are calculated for patients whose reason for removal was:
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Numerator:![]() | Number of patients who received their elective surgery at the hospital and waited longer than one year (365 days) for their surgery. |
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Denominator:![]() | Number of patients who received their elective surgery in the period |
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Disaggregation:![]() | Hospital, surgical speciality and indicator procedure |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Percentage |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Person |
Format:![]() | N[N.N] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions:![]() | PAF-Equity of access PAF-Effectiveness of access |
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Accountability attributes | |
Other issues caveats:![]() | Waiting time is calculated by states and territories by subtracting the listing date for care from the removal date, minus any days the patient was not ready for care and/or waiting with a less urgent clinical urgency category than their clinical urgency category at removal. The calculation of waiting time excludes:
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