Emergency surgery
Glossary Item Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 534125 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 12/06/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/12/2016 |
Definition: | Emergency surgery is surgery to treat trauma or acute illness subsequent to an emergency presentation. The patient may require immediate surgery or present for surgery at a later time following this unplanned presentation. This includes where the patient leaves hospital and returns for a subsequent admission. Emergency surgery includes unplanned surgery for admitted patients and unplanned surgery for patients already awaiting an elective surgery procedure (for example, in cases of acute deterioration of an existing condition). |
Context: | Admitted patient care |
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Guide for use: | Surgery is defined as procedures listed in the surgical operations section of the Commonwealth Medicare Benefits Schedule. Surgery is classified as either emergency surgery, elective surgery or other surgery on the basis of a patient's presentation and subsequent care (not by time periods to surgery). |
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Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee |
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Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2015-16 Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2016-17 Health!, Superseded 29/06/2016 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2015-16 Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2016-17 Health!, Superseded 29/06/2016 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2016-17 Health!, Superseded 05/10/2016 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2017-18 Health!, Superseded 25/01/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2018-19 Health!, Superseded 12/12/2018 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2019–20 Health!, Superseded 18/12/2019 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2020–21 Health!, Superseded 05/02/2021 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2021–22 Health!, Superseded 17/12/2021 Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2022–23 Health!, Standard 17/12/2021 Episode of admitted patient care—unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following emergency surgery indicator Health!, Standard 04/09/2015 |