Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Waiting list category |
METEOR identifier: | 732440 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 14/10/2021 |
Definition: | The type of elective hospital care that a patient requires, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type |
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METEOR identifier: | 269432 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | The type of elective hospital care that a patient requires. |
Context: | Admitted patients: Hospitals maintain waiting lists which may include patients awaiting hospital care other than elective surgery - for example, dental surgery and oncology treatments. This metadata item is necessary to distinguish patients awaiting elective surgery from those awaiting other types of elective hospital care. The waiting period for patients awaiting transplant or obstetric procedures is largely independent of system resource factors. |
Object class: | Elective care waiting list episode |
Property: | Elective care type |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Elective care type code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 735615 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 14/10/2021 |
Definition: | A code set representing the type of elective hospital care. |
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 11th edition | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Elective surgery |
2 | Other |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | This data element is necessary for determining whether patients are in scope for the Elective surgery waiting times NMDS, but is not explicitly included in that NMDS. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N Health, Superseded 14/10/2021 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, Superseded 06/12/2023 See also Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2024–25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |