Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.3–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion admitted within clinically recommended time, 2020
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | AHPF PI 2.5.3–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2020 |
METEOR identifier: | 728361 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 13/10/2021 |
Description: | The percentage of patients removed from elective surgery waiting lists who received surgery within the clinically recommended time, by urgency category, in public hospitals. |
Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/10/2021 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Elective surgery as defined in the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection (NESWTDC). The NESWTDC includes data collected for patients on elective surgery waiting lists managed by public acute hospitals and/or state and territory health authorities, who are yet to be admitted to hospital and for patients who have been removed from an elective surgery waiting list (for admission or another reason). The NESWTDC includes the date the patient is listed for care and the date the patient is removed from the elective surgery waiting list (removal date). 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 for patients whose reason for removal was:
For the purposes of reporting, patients are reported as the final urgency category they were when treated. When a patient's urgency category changes, the patient’s 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: | 2019–20—State and territory, by urgency category. Local Hospital Network, by urgency category (not reported). Hospital, by urgency category (not reported). |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2020 Australian Health Performance Framework reporting: 2019–20. 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. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | 5. Accessibility |
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Reporting requirements: | Australian Health Performance Framework |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.3–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion admitted within clinically recommended time, 2019 Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 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 2.5.4–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, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/03/2020 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 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20b–Waiting times for elective surgery: proportion seen on time, 2022 Health!, Standard 24/09/2021 |