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Data Element Detail

Specialist outpatient waiting list episode-clinical urgency assessment category
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 042277 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Draft
04-Sep-2017
Standard
Information Management Strategic Governance Committee (IMSGC), Queensland Health
01-Jul-2015
A clinical assessment of the urgency with which a patient requires care and/or treatment following assessment of a service request at a specialist outpatient clinic.
Specialist outpatient care
Urgency category (outpatient)
Representational Attributes
Numeric
Code
N
1
1
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

CodeDescription
1Appointment is clinically indicated within 30 days
2Appointment is clinically indicated within 90 days
3Appointment is clinically indicated within 365 days
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
The Specialist Outpatient Services Implementation Standard (SOSIS) states:

The urgency category should be appropriate to the patient and their clinical situation as indicated by Clinical Prioritisation Criteria (CPC) where appropriate, or as per endorsed local triaging guidelines. It must not be influenced by the perceived or actual availability of resources.

The clinical situation is taken to encompass the patient's medical condition and the patient's life circumstances, including issues related to activity limitations, restrictions in participation in employment and other life situations and access to carer and other supports.

The following urgency categories have been defined for use in specialist outpatient services undertaken in Queensland public hospitals:
Category 1 - Appointment within 30 calendar days
Category 2 - Appointment within 90 calendar days
Category 3 - Appointment within 365 calendar days.
Specialist Outpatient Data Collection (SODC):
Must not be blank.
Must be 1, 2 or 3.
The treating clinician is the clinician with responsibility for the patient at the time of urgency categorisation.
The clinical situation of the patient is taken to encompass the patient's medical condition and the patient's life circumstances, including issues related to activity limitations, restrictions in participation in employment and other life situations, carer responsibilities and access to carer and other supports.
A patient's classification may change if he or she undergoes clinical review during the waiting period. The need for clinical review varies with the patient's condition and is therefore at the discretion of the treating clinician.
Categorisation of waiting list patients by clinical urgency:
- assists hospital management and clinicians in the prioritisation of their workloads
- gives health consumers a reasonable estimate of the maximum time they should expect to wait for care
- allows a meaningful measure of system performance to be calculated, namely the number or proportion of patients who wait for times in excess of the maximum desirable time limit for their urgency category.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Is used in the calculation ofData ElementData ElementSpecialist outpatient service request-waiting time, total daysQH 043115 Version 1Draft
Relates toData ElementData ElementSpecialist outpatient service request-clinical prioritisation criteria statusQH 042283 Version 1Draft
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionSpecialist Outpatient Data Collection (SODC)QH 020606 Version 3MandatoryDraft01-Jul-2021
Information AssetData CollectionSpecialist Outpatient Data Collection (SODC)QH 020606 Version 2MandatoryCurrent01-Jul-201930-Jun-2021
Information AssetData CollectionSpecialist Outpatient Data Collection (SODC)QH 020606 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201530-Jun-2019
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Census Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2017-2018QH 020306 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201730-Jun-2018
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Census Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2018-2019QH 020435 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201830-Jun-2019
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Census Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2019-2020QH 020610 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201930-Jun-2020
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Census Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2020-2021QH 020688 Version 1MandatoryDraft01-Jul-202030-Jun-2021
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Removals Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2017-2018QH 020305 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201730-Jun-2018
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Removals Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2018-2019QH 020436 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201830-Jun-2019
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Removals Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2019-2020QH 020609 Version 1MandatorySuperseded01-Jul-201930-Jun-2020
Data Supply RequirementHHS Service AgreementSpecialist Outpatient Waiting List Removals Data Supply Requirement (DSR) 2020-2021QH 020689 Version 1MandatoryDraft01-Jul-202030-Jun-2021
Source and Reference Attributes
Queensland Health
Specialist Outpatient Services Implementation Standard (SOSIS): https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/164756/qh-imp-300-1.pdf
Clinical urgency category; Specialist outpatient; Urgency category; Waiting list;