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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2015

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termProgress measure
Short name:Help on this termPI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2015
METEOR identifier:Help on this term559030
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
Description:Help on this termMedian and 90th percentile waiting times for elective surgery in public hospitals, including by indicator procedure.
Indicator set:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement (2015)
Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
Outcome area:Help on this termHospital and Related Care
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Health, Standard 07/07/2010
Quality statement:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting time in days, 2015 QS Health, Superseded 08/07/2016

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

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, and excluding days where the patient was not ready for care.

Waiting times are calculated for patients whose reason for removal was:

  1. Admitted as an elective patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory.
  2. Admitted as emergency patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory. 

Analysis by state and territory based on location of service.

Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.

Presented as number of days.

Computation:Help on this term

Number of days waited at 50th and 90th percentile.

Calculated overall and for each indicator procedure.

Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data SetEstablishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N
Data Source
National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
NMDS / DSS
Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetElective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code N
Data Source
National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection
NMDS / DSS
Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2013-15
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetElective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]
Data Source
National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection
NMDS / DSS
Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2013-15
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetEstablishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN
Data Source
National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection
NMDS / DSS
Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2013-15
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetPerson—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]
Data Source
National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
NMDS / DSS
Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetPerson—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]
Data Source
National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection
NMDS / DSS
Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2013-15
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Denominator:Help on this termNot applicable
Disaggregation:Help on this term

2013–14—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total) by:

  • peer group
  • Indigenous status

    2012–13 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD))—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total):

    • peer group (unlinked data)
    • Indigenous status (linked or unlinked data, depending on data availability and quality)

    2012–13 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—State and territory, by:

    • remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure) (linked data)
    • 2011 Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles (linked data)

    2012–13 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—Nationally, by:

    • 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles (linked data)
    • selected indicator procedures (cataract extraction, cholecystectomy, coronary artery bypass graft, cystoscopy) by 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintiles (linked data)
    • indicator procedure, by peer group, by Indigenous status, by remoteness (ASGS Remoteness Structure)(linked data)

    Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.

Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data SetData Element
Public hospital peer group
Data Source
National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
NMDS / DSS
Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetEstablishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN
Data Source
National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
NMDS / DSS
Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Used for disaggregation by state/territory
Data Element / Data SetPerson—Indigenous status, code N
Data Source
National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
NMDS / DSS
Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetElective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN
Data Source
National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection
NMDS / DSS
Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2013-15
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Data Element / Data SetPerson—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)
Data Source
National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
NMDS / DSS
Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14
Guide for use
Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Used for disaggregation by remoteness and SEIFA IRSD
Comments:Help on this term

Most recent data available for 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting: 2012–13.

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.

For 2011-12 data, the 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintile and decile data were produced using the Australian Standard Geography Classification geographical unit of Statistical Local Area. For 2012–13 data, the 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintile and decile data will be produced using the Australian Statistical Geography Standard geographical unit of Statistical Area 2.

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:Help on this termMedian
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termTime (e.g. days, hours)
Format:Help on this termN[NN]

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termAccessibility

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data SourceNational Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
Frequency
Annual
Data custodian

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare


Data SourceNational Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection
Frequency
Annual
Data custodian

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare


Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement
Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Further data development / collection required:Help on this termSpecification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2014
  • Health, Superseded 14/01/2015
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a–Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2016
  • Health, Superseded 31/01/2017
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b-Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2015
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2015
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
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