Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Overdue patient |
METEOR identifier: | 599651 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 |
Definition: | Whether or not a patient is an overdue patient, as represented by a code. |
Context: | Elective surgery |
Data Element Concept: | Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status |
Value Domain: | Overdue patient status code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Overdue patient |
2 | Other |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This metadata item is required for patients in all Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N categories. Overdue patients are those for whom the hospital system has failed to provide timely care and whose wait may have an adverse effect on the outcome of their care. They are identified by a comparison of Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN] or Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at a census date), total days N[NNN] and the maximum desirable time limit for the clinical urgency category. A patient is classified as overdue if ready for surgery and waiting time at admission or waiting time at a census date is longer than 30 days for patients in clinical urgency category 1, 90 days for patients in clinical urgency category 2, or 365 days for patients in clinical urgency category 3. |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N Health!, Superseded 12/06/2015 Has been superseded by Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code N Health!, Superseded 25/01/2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/06/2020 Is formed using Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at a census date), total days N[NNN] Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 Is formed using Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN] Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 See also Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code N Health!, Superseded 05/02/2021 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Elective surgery waiting times (census data) NMDS 2015-16 Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Elective surgery waiting times (removals data) NMDS 2015-16 Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 01/06/2016 |