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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2012

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Definition

Median and 90th percentile waiting times for elective surgery in public hospitals, including by indicator procedure

Indicator Summary

Numerator
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Denominator
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Computation

Elective surgery as defined in the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection.

Indicator procedure as defined in Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN.

Waiting time 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 …

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Disaggregation

2010–11—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total) by:

  • peer group
  • Indigenous status

      2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the National Hospital Morbidity Database)—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total):

    • peer group (unlinked data)
    • Indigenous status (linked or unlinked data, depending on data availability and quality)

        2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—State and territory, by:

      • remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)(linked data)
      • SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles (linked data) …
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        Calculation rules

        Computation Rule
        Description

        Elective surgery as defined in the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection.

        Indicator procedure as defined in Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NN.

        Waiting time 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.

        Waiting times are calculated for patients whose reason for removal was Admitted as an elective patient.

        Analysis by state and territory based on location of service.

        Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.

        Presented as number of days.

        Denominators
        Not applicable
        Disaggregation

        2010–11—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total) by:

      • peer group
      • Indigenous status

          2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the National Hospital Morbidity Database)—State and territory, by indicator procedure (and total):

        • peer group (unlinked data)
        • Indigenous status (linked or unlinked data, depending on data availability and quality)

            2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—State and territory, by:

          • remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)(linked data)
          • SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles (linked data)

              2009–10 (revised for peer groups and linkage to the NHMD)—Nationally, by SEIFA IRSD deciles (linked data)

              2007–08 and 2008–09 (revised for unlinked data from the NESWTDC), by indicator procedure (and total), by:

            • peer group

                Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.

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                This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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