Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Category reassignment date
METEOR identifier:	732418
Registration status:	Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 28/03/2023
Definition:	The date on which a patient awaiting elective hospital care is assigned to a different urgency category as a result of clinical review for the awaited procedure, or is assigned to a different patient listing status category, expressed as DDMMYYYY.
Context:	Elective surgery
Value Domain:	Date DDMMYYYY

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Date
Data type:	Date/Time
Format:	DDMMYYYY
Maximum character length:	8

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	The date needs to be recorded each time a patient's urgency classification or listing status changes.
Comments:	This date is necessary for the calculation of the waiting time at admission and the waiting time at a census date.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Elective care waiting list episode—category reassignment date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2023 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N Health, Standard 05/02/2021 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—patient listing status, readiness for surgery code N Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—patient listing status, readiness for surgery code N Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health,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 surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at a census date, total days N[NNN] Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 28/03/2023 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN] Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2023 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN] Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 28/03/2023 See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 09/12/2022 See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2023–24 Health, Standard 09/12/2022 See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2024–25 Health, Qualified 08/09/2023