Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Surgical specialty |
METEOR identifier: | 605195 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 |
Definition: | The area of clinical expertise held by the doctor who will perform the elective surgery, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor) |
Value Domain: | Elective surgery code NN |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The purpose of this data element is to capture the surgical specialty of the surgeon who will perform the procedure, rather than the type of patient or the nature of the surgery to be performed. CODE 11 Other All other surgical specialties not otherwise listed. |
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Comments: | The above surgical categories are consistent with the specialties recognised by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (available at http://www.surgeons.org/surgical-specialties/), and as included in the National Elective Surgery Urgency Categorisation Guideline-April 2015 (the Guideline). The Guideline can be accessed using the link in Reference documents. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Reference documents: | COAG Health Council 2015. National Elective Surgery Urgency Categorisation Guideline - April 2015. Viewed 28 October 2015, http://www.coaghealthcouncil.gov.au/Publications/Reports/ |
Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor), code NN Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty of scheduled doctor, code NN Health, Standard 12/12/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 29/06/2016 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 29/06/2016 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2018-19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 |
Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Disaggregation
Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.2–Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 |