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Data Element Detail

Outpatient clinic service request-waiting time to census
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 041549 v2
Data Element
Derived Data Element
Draft
24-May-2012		Current
02-Nov-2012		Retired
30-Jun-2015
Standard
01-Jul-2012
30-Jun-2015
The total number of days from the date a request for service is received by an outpatient clinic, or, if the clinical urgency category is upgraded, from the date of recategorisation, to a designated census date.
Hospital outpatient clinic services excluding community mental health care (which includes hospital-based mental health ambulatory services).
Outpatient clinic waiting time to census
Representational Attributes
Integer
Quantitative Value
[N(3)]N
1
4
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

Values in the range 0 - 9999
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
The number of days is calculated by subtracting the Outpatient clinic service request-receipt date from the Census date. The waiting time calculation includes weekends and public holidays.

The calculation excludes any days the patient was waiting with a less urgent clinical urgency category (excluding supplementary codes), any days the outpatient clinic service was awaiting further information from the requesting service, as well as any days the patient was not ready for care.

In cases where the clinical urgency category is upgraded the waiting time count is restarted from the recategorised date. For example, when a clinical urgency category code is upgraded from a category 3 to a category 1, the waiting time count starts from the date the clinical urgency category code was changed to a category 1.
The number of days cannot be a negative number.
The census date would normally fall on a quarterly census reporting date, although at times ad hoc reports may be generated.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
SupersedesData ElementDerived Data ElementOutpatient clinic service request-waiting time to censusQH 041549 Version 1Superseded
Is derived fromData ElementData ElementCensus dateQH 040352 Version 1Superseded
Is derived fromData ElementData ElementOutpatient clinic service request-clinical urgency categoryQH 040936 Version 3Retired
Is derived fromData ElementData ElementOutpatient clinic service request-receipt dateQH 040929 Version 2Superseded
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData Element ConceptNot ready for careQH 040377 Version 2Superseded
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

No Metadata Items
Source and Reference Attributes
Queensland Health
Outpatient Services Implementation Standard
Census; Outpatient clinic; Service request; Waiting time;