Other surgery

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	568786
Registration status:	Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016
Definition:	Other surgery is where the procedure cannot be defined as either emergency surgery or elective surgery, for example, transplant surgery and planned obstetrics procedures.

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	Surgery is defined as procedures listed in the surgical operations section of the Australian Government Medicare Benefits Schedule. Surgery is classified as either emergency surgery, elective surgery or other surgery on the basis of a patient’s presentation and subsequent care (not by time periods to surgery).
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Elective surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 See also Emergency surgery Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Elective surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Elective surgery ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018 Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 29/06/2016 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 29/06/2016 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2018-19 ACT Health (retired), Candidate 03/08/2018 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Emergency surgery Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Emergency surgery Health, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 Episode of admitted patient care—unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following other surgery indicator Health, Standard 04/09/2015 Episode of admitted patient care—unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following other surgery indicator, Yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N Health, Standard 04/09/2015 Unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following other surgery indicator Health, Standard 04/09/2015