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Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2014, Percentage of urgency category 1 elective surgery patients seen within the clinically recommended time, 2014
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Indicator
Indicator type:
Indicator
Short name:
Urgency category 1 elective surgery patients seen within the clinically recommended time (percentage)
This indicator measures the percentage of elective surgery patients who are admitted to the hospital (or contracting hospital) and received their waiting list procedure within national benchmark waiting times for each urgency category.
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 recommended wait time before treatment, in days, for urgency category 1 patients is 30 days or less (i.e. <= 30 days).
The indicator is calculated for urgency category 1 and presented as a percentage.
Computation:
100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)
Numerator:
Total number of admissions from the elective surgery waiting list to the hospital (or contracting hospital) within the benchmark for urgency category 1 (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 each urgency category (this includes admissions from the waiting list as an emergency)
Denominator data elements:
Disaggregation:
Specified disaggregation: Hospital and clinical urgency.