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Measure Summaries

Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

• Cardiothoracic surgery: percentage of elective patients who die in the same admission as having coronary artery graft surgery (CAGS), during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Cardiothoracic surgery: percentage of patients aged 71 years or greater who die in the same admission as having coronary artery graft surgery (CAGS), during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Cardiothoracic surgery: percentage of patients who die in the same admission as having coronary artery graft surgery (CAGS), during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• General surgery: percentage of patients having a laparoscopic cholecystectomy with a bile duct injury requiring operative intervention, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Neurosurgery: percentage of patients having a neurosurgical infection in hospital, excluding superficial wound infections, requiring nothing more than a single short course of antibiotics, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Neurosurgery: percentage of patients with a new neurological deficit following a neurosurgery procedure, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Orthopaedic surgery: percentage of patients undergoing primary total hip joint replacement (THJR) having a postoperative in hospital infection, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Otolaryngology: percentage of patients who have a significant reactionary haemorrhage following tonsillectomy, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Paediatric surgery: percentage of children with a pre-operative diagnosis of acute appendicitis, who undergo appendicectomy with normal histology, but significant other intra-abdominal pathology, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Paediatric surgery: percentage of children with a pre-operative diagnosis of acute appendicitis, who undergo appendicectomy with normal histology, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Paediatric surgery: percentage of patients having a pyloromyotomy in which mucosal perforation occurs and is detected at the time of the operation or later, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Plastic surgery: percentage of completely excised malignant skin tumours, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Urology: average number of patient days (from the first day after surgery) for all patients having a transurethral resection (TUR) for benign prostatomegaly (excluding patients having other procedures), during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Urology: average operating time (minutes) for all patients undergoing a transurethral resection (TUR) for benign prostatomegaly, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Urology: percentage of patients having a transurethral resection (TUR) for benign prostatomegaly, who have a blood transfusion (intra-operatively or post-operatively) within the same admission, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Urology: percentage of patients having an unplanned readmission within 28 days of discharge following transurethral resection (TUR) for benign prostatomegaly, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Vascular surgery: percentage of patients having a carotid endarterectomy who have a stroke within the same admission, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Vascular surgery: percentage of patients having an elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair performed, who die within the same admission, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.