This indicator measures the percentage of elective surgery category 1 patients who are admitted to the hospital (or contracting hospital) and received their waiting list procedure within national benchmark waiting times.
The definitions applied are consistent with the national definitions used for reporting against the National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services. The definitions include admission from the elective surgery waiting list where the planned procedure was completed. This also includes patients admitted for the waiting list as an emergency.
The number of waiting time days is calculated by subtracting the listing date for care from the removal date, minus any days the patient was 'not ready for care', and minus any days the patient was waiting with a less urgent clinical urgency category than their clinical urgency category at removal.
Indicator procedures as defined in the Tasmanian wait list procedure code (TWLPC) set and specify which procedures are included in the calculation of this indicator in accordance with national definitions.
The indicator is calculated category 1 elective surgery patients only and presented as a percentage.
Computation:
100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)
Calculated for category 1 elective surgery patients only
Numerator:
Total number of admissions from the elective surgery waiting list to the hospital (or contracting hospital) within benchmarks for category 1 elective surgery patients (this includes admissions from the waiting list as an emergency):
Clinical urgency category
National standards (desirable treatment times)
Category 1 - Urgent
Admission within 30 days (i.e. <= 30 days)
Numerator data elements:
Denominator:
Total number of admissions from the elective surgery waiting list to the hospital (or contracting hospital) for category 1 elective surgery patients (this includes admissions from the waiting list as an emergency)