Elective surgery waiting times cluster
Data Set Specification Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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| METEOR identifier: | 761015 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 20/10/2022 |
| DSS type: | Data Element Cluster |
| Scope: | 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 data element Elective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code N. 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 data element Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N), 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: | 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. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting times cluster Health, Superseded 20/10/2022 See also Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N Health, Standard 14/10/2021 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code N Health, Standard 25/01/2018 See also Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
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