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Elective surgery waiting times cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term708184
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 18/12/2019
DSS type:Help on this termData Element Cluster
Scope:Help on this term

The scope of the Elective surgery waiting times data element cluster is patients on elective surgery waiting lists managed by public acute hospitals, in either category 1 or 2 of the Reason for removals from elective surgery waiting list data element.

This will include private patients treated in public hospitals, and may include public patients treated in private hospitals.

Hospitals may also collect information for other care (as defined in the Elective care type data element), but this is not part of the Elective surgery waiting times National minimum data set.

Patients on waiting lists managed by hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, corrections authorities and Australia's external territories are not currently included.

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

Outsourced or contracted patients:

Public hospitals managing elective surgery waiting lists may either outsource elective surgery work to another hospital (public or private) or contract another hospital (public or private) to provide elective surgery on their behalf.

In such cases, the hospital where the outsourced or contracted elective surgery occurs is required to include the Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN data element for the hospital managing the elective surgery waiting list as part of the Elective surgery waiting times data cluster.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting times cluster
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2021
Supersedes Elective surgery waiting times cluster
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 12/12/2018
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Admitted patient care NMDS 2019-20Health, Superseded 18/12/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

Implementation end date: 30/06/2020

Conditional obligation:

This data element cluster is to be reported for patients on waiting lists for elective surgery, which are managed by public acute hospitals and have a category 1 or 2 assigned for the reason for removal from the elective surgery waiting list.


Metadata items in this Data Set SpecificationHelp on this term

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Elective care waiting list episode—listing date for care, DDMMYYYYMandatory1
-Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code NMandatory1
-Elective surgery waiting list episode—intended procedure, code NNNMandatory1
-Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code NMandatory1
-Elective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code NMandatory1
-Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty of scheduled doctor, code NNMandatory1
-Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN]Mandatory1
-Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN

Conditional obligation:

This is the establishment identifier of the contracting hospital and is reported for contracted patients only.

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