Person—General Practitioner waiting times for urgent GP appointment, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | General Practitioner waiting time for urgent GP appointment |
| METEOR identifier: | 601835 |
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| Definition: | How long a person waited between making an appointment and seeing a GP for an urgent appointment, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—General Practitioner waiting time for urgent GP appointment |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | The term 'urgent' is left to the respondent's interpretation. Discretionary interviewer advice was for the respondent to include health issues that arose suddenly and were potentially serious; for example, fever, headache, vomiting, unexplained rash. Seeing a GP to get a medical certificate for work for a less serious illness would not be considered urgent. | ||||||||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | National Health Performance Authority | ||||||||||||
| Steward: | National Health Performance Authority | ||||||||||||
| Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics Patient Experience Survey | ||||||||||||