Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Overdue patient status |
| METEOR identifier: | 684818 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 |
| Definition: | Whether the wait time of a patient on an elective surgery waiting list has exceeded the time that has been determined as clinically desirable in relation to the urgency category to which they have been assigned, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | |
| Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status |
| Value Domain: | Overdue patient status code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Overdue patient |
| 2 | Other | |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This metadata item is required for patients in all Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N categories. Overdue patients are those for whom the hospital system has failed to provide timely care and whose wait may have an adverse effect on the outcome of their care. They are identified by a comparison of Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN] or Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at a census date), total days N[NNN] and the maximum desirable time limit for the clinical urgency category. A patient is classified as overdue if waiting time at admission or waiting time at a census date is longer than 30 days for patients in clinical urgency category 1, 90 days for patients in clinical urgency category 2, or 365 days for patients in clinical urgency category 3. |
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| Comments: | The number and proportion of overdue patients represent a measure of the hospital's performance in the provision of elective hospital care. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/06/2020 Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2023 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at a census date), total days N[NNN] Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/06/2020 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN] Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/06/2020 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at a census date, total days N[NNN] Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN] Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 |