Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Surgical specialty of scheduled doctor |
METEOR identifier: | 689726 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 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 attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty of scheduled doctor |
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METEOR identifier: | 689731 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/12/2018 |
Definition: | The area of clinical expertise held by the doctor who will perform the elective surgery. |
Context: | Elective surgery: Many hospitals manage their waiting lists on a specialty basis. Current data shows that the total ready-for-care times waited and numbers of long wait patients vary significantly between specialties. Furthermore, the hospital capacity to handle the demand for elective surgery varies with specialty. |
Object class: | Elective surgery waiting list episode |
Property: | Surgical specialty of scheduled doctor |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Elective surgery code NN |
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METEOR identifier: | 689724 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/12/2018 |
Definition: | A code set representing types of surgical specialties. |
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 5 September 2019, http://www.coaghealthcouncil.gov.au/Portals/0/National%20Elective Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 2015. Surgical specialties. Viewed 28 October 2015, http://www.surgeons.org/surgical-specialties/ |
Data element attributes | |
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. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor), code NN Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 20/10/2022 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Standard 20/10/2022 Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Recorded 26/04/2024 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 09/12/2022 Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2023–24 Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2023 Implementation end date: 30/06/2024 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2024–25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2024 Implementation end date: 30/06/2025 |
Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Disaggregation
Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.2–Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2024 Health, Qualified 02/07/2024 |