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Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency

Data Element Concept Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term598030
Registration status:Help on this term

Health, Standard 12/06/2015

Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016

Definition:Help on this term

A clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires elective surgery.

Context:Help on this term

Elective surgery:

Categorisation of waiting list patients by clinical urgency assists hospital management and clinicians in the prioritisation of their workloads. It gives health consumers a reasonable estimate of the maximum time they should expect to wait for care. Clinical urgency classification allows a meaningful measure of system performance to be calculated, namely the number or proportion of patients who wait for times in excess of the maximum desirable time limit for their urgency category (metadata item the overdue patient status).

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Elective surgery waiting list episode
Definition:Help on this termThe period between entry to and removal from an elective surgery waiting list.
Specialisation of:Help on this termService episode

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australia Institute of Health and Welfare

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Clinical urgency
Definition:Help on this termA clinical assessment of the urgency with which care, treatment or assistance is required.
Property group:Help on this termService/care urgency

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee

Reference documents:Help on this term

AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2013. National definitions for elective surgery urgency categories: proposal for the Standing Council on Health. Cat. no. HSE 138. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 30 July 2015. http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=60129543979

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency

        Health, Superseded 12/06/2015

        National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Elective care waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code X[AXAA]

        Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016

Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N

        Health, Standard 05/02/2021

Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N

        Health, Superseded 05/02/2021

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