Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Category reassignment date |
| METEOR identifier: | 598052 |
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| Definition: | The date on which a patient awaiting elective hospital care is assigned to a different urgency category as a result of clinical review for the awaited procedure, or is assigned to a different patient listing status category, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
| Context: | Elective surgery |
| Data Element Concept: | Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date |
Value domain attributes | |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Date |
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| Data type: | Date/Time |
| Format: | DDMMYYYY |
| Maximum character length: | 8 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The date needs to be recorded each time a patient's urgency classification or listing status changes. |
| Comments: | This date is necessary for the calculation of the waiting time at admission and the waiting time at a census date. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY
Supersedes Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY
See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N
See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—patient listing status, readiness for care code N
Is used in the formation of Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at a census date), total days N[NNN]
Is used in the formation of Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]
See also Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2015-16
See also Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2015-16
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