Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Waiting list category |
| METEOR identifier: | 604410 |
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| Definition: | The type of elective hospital care that a patient requires, as represented by a code. |
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| Data element concept: | Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type | ||||||
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| METEOR identifier: | 269432 | ||||||
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| Definition: | The type of elective hospital care that a patient requires. | ||||||
| Context: | Admitted patients: Hospitals maintain waiting lists which may include patients awaiting hospital care other than elective surgery - for example, dental surgery and oncology treatments. This metadata item is necessary to distinguish patients awaiting elective surgery from those awaiting other types of elective hospital care. The waiting period for patients awaiting transplant or obstetric procedures is largely independent of system resource factors. | ||||||
| Object class: | Elective care waiting list episode | ||||||
| Property: | Elective care type | ||||||
Value domain attributes | |||||||
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| Value domain: | Elective care type code N | ||||||
| METEOR identifier: | 604345 | ||||||
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| Definition: | A code set representing the type of elective hospital care. | ||||||
Representational attributes | |||||||
| Classification scheme: | Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 9th edition | ||||||
| Representation class: | Code | ||||||
| Data type: | Number | ||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||
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| Guide for use: | Elective surgery comprises elective care where the procedures required by patients are listed in the surgical operations section of the Medicare Benefits Schedule, with the exclusion of specific procedures frequently done by non-surgical clinicians. CODE 1 Elective surgery All elective surgery, that is excluding procedures listed in the exclusion list for Code 2 below, should be included in this code. CODE 2 Other Patients awaiting the following procedures should be classified as Code 2 - Other:
These procedure terms are also defined by the Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) codes which are listed in the Comments field below. This coded list is the recommended, but optional, method for determining whether a patient is classified as requiring elective surgery or other care. | ||||||
| Comments: | The table of Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) procedure codes was originally prepared by the National Centre for Classification in Health. Some codes were excluded from the list on the basis that they are usually performed by non-surgeon clinicians. A more extensive and detailed listing of procedure descriptors is under development. This will replace the list in the Guide for use to more readily facilitate the identification of the exclusions when the list of codes is not used. ACHI codes for the excluded procedures: Biopsy (needle) of: Bronchoscopy (including fibre-optic bronchoscopy): Dental procedures not attracting a Medicare rebate: Endoscopy of biliary tract and pancreas: Endoscopy of oesophagus: Endoscopy of large intestine, rectum and anus: Endovascular interventional procedures: In vitro fertilisation: Miscellaneous cardiac procedures: Miscellaneous lower urinary tract procedures: Obstetric: Organ or tissue transplant: Panendoscopy: Peritoneal and renal dialysis: Procedures associated with obstetrics: Other diagnostic and non-surgical procedures: | ||||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||||
| Reference documents: | Australian Consortium for Classification Development (ACCD) 2015. The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) – Ninth Edition - Tabular list of interventions and Alphabetic index of interventions. Adelaide: Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Lane Publishing.
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Data element attributes | |||||||
Collection and usage attributes | |||||||
| Collection methods: | This data element is necessary for determining whether patients are in scope for both the Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2015- and the Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2015- but is not explicitly included in either NMDS. | ||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee | ||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N
Supersedes Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N
See also Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2015-16
See also Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2016-17
See also Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2015-16
See also Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2016-17
See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17
See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2017-18
See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2018-19
See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2019–20
See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2020–21
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