Elective surgery waiting list episode—patient listing status, readiness for surgery code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Patient listing status |
METEOR identifier: | 716089 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 |
Definition: | An indicator of the person's readiness to begin the process leading directly to being admitted to hospital for an awaited procedure, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—patient listing status |
Value Domain: | Readiness for surgery code N |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee - Emergency Data Development Working Group; Hospitals Principal Committee - Project Steering Committee on National Definitions for Elective Surgery Urgency Categories |
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Reference documents: | AIHW 2013. National definitions for elective surgery urgency categories: proposal for the Standing Council on Health. Cat. no. HSE 138. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 30 July 2015, http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=60129543979 |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Patients should only be added to waiting lists (that is, regarded as 'ready for surgery' for the purpose of monitoring waiting times, and for the purpose of allocation of a surgery date) when they are personally and clinically ready for surgery. Patients deferred for personal reasons should not be added to the waiting lists until they are ready for surgery. They should be suspended from the waiting list if they defer after being ready for surgery. Details of how and when patients move between 'ready for surgery' categories are not needed for national or local reporting of the data. Periods when patients are not ready for surgery should be excluded in determining Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN] and Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at a census date, total days N[NNN]. |
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Comments: | The dates when a patient listing status changes need to be recorded. A patient's classification may change if he or she is examined by a clinician during the waiting period, i.e. undergoes clinical review. The need for clinical review varies with the patient's condition and is therefore at the discretion of the treating clinician. The waiting list information system should be able to record dates when the classification is changed using the Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—patient listing status, readiness for surgery code N Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting list episode—patient listing status, readiness for surgery code N Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 28/03/2023 See also Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 28/03/2023 See also Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2023 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 Health, Standard 12/12/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Conditional obligation: Only for patients on an elective surgery waiting list at time of census. |