Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Overdue patient status |
| METEOR identifier: | 684818 |
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| 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. |
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| Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||
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| 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. | ||||||||
| Comments: | The number and proportion of overdue patients represent a measure of the hospital's performance in the provision of elective hospital care. | ||||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N
Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N
See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N
See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at a census date), total days N[NNN]
See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]
See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at a census date, total days N[NNN]
See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN]
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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