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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2018

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termProgress measure
Short name:Help on this termPI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2018
METEOR identifier:Help on this term658493
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 19/06/2019
Description:Help on this term

The percentage of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time, by urgency category.

Indicator set:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement (2018)
Health, Superseded 16/06/2019
Outcome area:Help on this termHospital and Related Care
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Health, Standard 07/07/2010

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

Elective surgery as defined in the Elective Surgery Waiting Times National Minimum Data Set (NMDS).

Waiting time is as defined in Waiting time at removal from elective surgery waiting list. Calculated by jurisdictions by subtracting the listing date for care from the removal date, minus any days the patient was waiting with a less urgent clinical urgency category than their clinical urgency category at removal, and excluding days where the patient was not ready for care.

Waiting times are calculated for patients whose reason for removal was:

  1. Admitted as an elective patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory
  2. Admitted as an emergency patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory

For the purposes of reporting, patients are reported as the final urgency category they were when treated. When a patient's urgency category changes, existing NMDS business rules will apply.

Analysis by state and territory based on location of service.

Presented as a percentage.

Computation:Help on this term

100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Numerator:Help on this term

Number of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time.

Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Elective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code N

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Denominator:Help on this term

Number of patients who received elective surgery.

Disaggregation:Help on this term

State and territory, by:

  • clinical urgency,
  • Indigenous status.
Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Used for disaggregation by state/territory

Data Element / Data Set

Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—Indigenous status, code N

Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NMDS / DSS

Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Comments:Help on this term

NO DATA FOR 2018 REPORTING.

The scope of the indicator is all hospitals reporting to the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection. It includes episode-level data on patients added to or removed from waiting lists for elective surgery which are managed by public hospitals.

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termPercentage
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termPerson
Format:Help on this term

N[NN].N

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termAccessibility

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

Frequency

Annual

Data custodian

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this term

National Healthcare Agreement

Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Further data development / collection required:Help on this term

Specification: Minor work required, the measure needs minor work to meet the intention of the indicator.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a–Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2018
  • Health, Superseded 19/06/2019
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2017
  • Health, Superseded 30/01/2018
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2019
  • Health, Superseded 13/03/2020
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32–Patient satisfaction/experience, 2018
  • Health, Superseded 19/06/2019
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