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Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 596329 |
Registration status: | Health!, Recorded 05/01/2018 |
DSS type: | Data Set Specification (DSS) |
Scope: | The First Surgical Service Event National Best Endeavours Data Set (FSSE NBEDS) defines information about the first non-admitted patient service event for a surgical non-admitted patient service in a public hospital. The first non-admitted patient service event is the first interaction between a patient and a surgical specialist following a request for service. A request for service is generated by a referral to the non-admitted patient service. The source of the service request may be a health-care provider, such as a general practitioner or another specialist, or a hospital. Each referral from a health-care provider or hospital, will have one first non-admitted patient service event associated with it. The scope of the FSSE NBEDS includes non-admitted patient service events to non-admitted patients:
A surgical non-admitted patient service is a specialty unit or organisational arrangement from which a hospital provides a patient’s surgical non-admitted service event following a request for service. A surgical non-admitted patient service event is inscope for this NBEDS where the non-admitted patient service type is one of the following Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services Classification codes:
Excluded from the scope of the FSSE NBEDS are all services covered by:
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Guide for use: | A non-admitted patient service event is an interaction between one or more health-care provider(s) with one non-admitted patient, which must contain therapeutic/clinical content and result in a dated entry in the patient's medical record. The FSSE NBEDS uses counting rules based on those of the Non-admitted patient NBEDS for the relevant reference year, but for first non-admitted patient service events only. Counting rules:
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Collection methods: | National reporting arrangements State and territory health authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis. Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated Financial years ending 30 June each year. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Measurement of Access Time to Elective surgery (MATES) Working Group |
Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, 2015. Tier 2 Non-admitted Services Definition Manual 2016-17 (version 4.1). Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Sydney. Viewed 3 January 2018. https://www.ihpa.gov.au/sites/g/files/net636/f/publications/ |
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Related metadata references: | See also Non-admitted patient NBEDS 2017-18 Health!, Superseded 25/01/2018 |