National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2018
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Progress measure |
| Short name: | PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2018 |
| METEOR identifier: | 658493 |
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| Description: | The percentage of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time, by urgency category. |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2018) Health, Superseded 16/06/2019 |
| Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | 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:
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. |
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| Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
| Numerator: | Number of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| Denominator: | Number of patients who received elective surgery. |
| Disaggregation: | State and territory, by:
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| Comments: | 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: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection Frequency Annual Data custodian Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Further data development / collection required: | 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: | See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a–Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2018
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2017
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2019
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32–Patient satisfaction/experience, 2018
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