National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2022
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2022 |
METEOR identifier: | 740843 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 24/09/2021 |
Description: | The percentage of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time, by urgency category. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2022) Health, Standard 24/09/2021 |
Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care Health, Standard 07/07/2010 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Elective surgery as defined in the Elective Surgery Waiting Times National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Waiting time is as defined in Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN]. Calculated by jurisdictions by subtracting the listing date for care from the removal date, minus any days the patient was waiting with a less urgent clinical urgency category than their clinical urgency category at removal, and excluding days where the patient was not ready for care. Waiting times are calculated where reason for removal was:
The urgency category at the time of admission from the waiting list is reported. If the assigned urgency category changes, the waiting time at removal is calculated as per the Guide for use for Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time at removal, total days N[NNN]. Analysis by state and territory based on location of service. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time. |
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Denominator: | Number of patients who received elective surgery. |
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Disaggregation: | State and territory, by:
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Comments: | NO DATA FOR 2022 REPORTING. The scope of the indicator is all hospitals reporting to the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection. It includes episode-level data on patients added to or removed from waiting lists for elective surgery which are managed by public hospitals. Further details about waiting times for Indigenous Australians are available from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (measure 3.14: Access to services compared with need). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Minor work required, the measure needs minor work to meet the intention of the indicator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2020. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 19 February 2021, https://indigenoushpf.gov.au/ |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.2–Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.3–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion admitted within clinically recommended time, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.4–Waiting times for elective surgery: percentage waited more than 365 days, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a–Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting times in days, 2022 Health, Standard 24/09/2021 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32–Patient satisfaction/experience, 2022 Health, Standard 24/09/2021 |