The Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (GIEDC) is a monthly collection of patients who are still waiting on the gastrointestinal endoscopy waiting list in one of 44 reporting public hospitals. The GIEDC collects demographic, waiting list and service information to meet State reporting requirements and for benchmarking, planning, purchasing and performance purposes.

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To collect demographic and gastrointestinal endoscopy waiting list data for patients waiting for a GIE procedure, from Queensland Health services in scope of the GIEDC, for state reporting purposes.

GIEDC-Waiting is a unit record level data collection where the unit record is a waiting list entry for a patient with a registered service request for a gastrointestinal endoscopy procedure, at a public hospital listed in the Site Implemented section below, who are waiting at the census date.

Procedures in scope are elective, non-surgical or minimally invasive GIE procedures which can be either diagnostic (e.g. finding the cause of a symptom or checking a wound) and/or interventional (e.g. stenting a blockage or removing a stone or polyp). Elective and emergency gastrointestinal surgery and emergency GIE (i.e. immediately necessary procedures that cannot be managed by placement on a waiting list) are not within the scope of this data collection.

The facilities in scope of the GIEDC-Waiting are listed below:
Atherton Hospital
Ayr Hospital
Bundaberg Hospital
Caboolture Hospital
Cairns Hospital
Charleville Hospital
Charters Towers Hospital
Dalby Hospital
Emerald Hospital
Gladstone Hospital
Gold Coast University Hospital
Goondiwindi Hospital
Gympie Hospital
Hervey Bay Hospital
Ingham Hospital
Innisfail Hospital
Ipswich Hospital
Kingaroy Hospital
Logan Hospital
Longreach Hospital
Mackay Base Hospital
Maryborough Hospital
Mater Hospital Brisbane Public
Miles Hospital
Mount Isa Base Hospital
Nambour Hospital
Noosa Hospital
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Proserpine Hospital
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital
Queensland Children's Hospital
Redcliffe Hospital
Redland Hospital
Robina Hospital
Rockhampton Hospital
Roma Hospital
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
St George Hospital
Stanthorpe Hospital
Sunshine Coast University Hospital
The Prince Charles Hospital
Thursday Island Hospital
Toowoomba Hospital
Townsville University Hospital
Warwick Hospital
Weipa Hospital

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Access to the GIEDC-Waiting is at the discretion of the Data Custodian.

Unit record information is supplied by facilities in electronic format, for all patients who meet the scope definition described above, for the reporting month. Data is submitted to the Healthcare Improvement Unit (HIU) by midday on the 15th calendar day following each reporting month, and refers to patients on a GIE waiting list as at the 1st day of the month (the census date).

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Colonoscopy; Endoscopy; Gastrointestinal; GIE; GIEDC; Waiting list; Waiting time