Definition
Indicator Summary
The percentage of patients who received their elective surgery and waited longer than one year (365 days) for their surgery.
Waiting times are calculated for patients whose reason for removal was:
- For surgical specialty and indicator procedures:
1. Admitted as an elective patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory.
Exclusions
The calculation …
Calculation rules
- Description
The percentage of patients who received their elective surgery and waited longer than one year (365 days) for their surgery.
Waiting times are calculated for patients whose reason for removal was:
- For surgical specialty and indicator procedures:
1. Admitted as an elective patient for awaited procedure by or on behalf of this hospital or the state/territory.
Exclusions
The calculation of waiting time excludes:
- All days the patient was waiting with a less urgent elective surgery urgency category than their urgency category when removed from the list. When a patient's urgency category changes, existing NMDS business rules will apply
- All patients who:
- Were transferred to another hospital’s elective surgery waiting list
- Were treated elsewhere but not on behalf of the hospital
- Were not contactable for booking the surgery or at booked time of surgery
- Died prior to receiving their surgery
- Declined surgery.
Data suppression
Results are not shown if the number of surgeries is fewer than 10.
Data are sourced from National Elective Surgery Waiting Time Data Collection.
Comments
Origin:
Hospital Performance
References
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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