Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Geographic remoteness |
Synonymous names: | Geographic remoteness of health-care incident |
METEOR identifier: | 466881 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 |
Definition: | The remoteness of the location at which a health-care incident took place, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Health-care incident—geographic remoteness |
Value Domain: | Remoteness classification (ASGC-RA) N |
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Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Standard Geographical Classification 2010 | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Major cities of Australia |
2 | Inner regional Australia | |
3 | Outer regional Australia | |
4 | Remote Australia | |
5 | Very remote Australia | |
6 | Migratory | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Origin: | Information relating to remoteness is available from the Geography portal on the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011. ABS Geography. Viewed 14 November 2011, http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/Geography Information relating to the development of the ARIA and ARIA+ scores by the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) is available from the GISCA website: National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems 2011. ARIA - Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia. Viewed 14 November 2011, |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The remoteness classification of an entity can be derived using characteristics of its physical location, e.g. its postcode or other address details. The remoteness classification (RA1 to RA5) can be found by entering the postcode or other address details of the hospital or other health service provider at which the health-care incident occurred into the Department of Health and Ageing's Remoteness area locator, available on the DoctorConnect website. The website can be accessed via the following link: http://www.doctorconnect.gov.au/internet/otd/Publishing.nsf/Content/locator |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | Department of Health and Ageing 2012. DoctorConnect. Viewed 23 February 2012. http://www.doctorconnect.gov.au/internet/otd/Publishing.nsf/Content/locator |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Health-care incident—geographic remoteness, remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) code N Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Medical indemnity DSS 2012-14 Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 DSS specific information: When the health-care incident that gave rise to a medical indemnity claim involved a series of events that occurred in more than one location, the code recorded should reflect the location at which the primary incident or allegation type occurred. Where a missed diagnosis was the main, dominant or primary cause giving rise to a medical indemnity claim, the code recorded should be the remoteness category of the place at which the diagnosis should first have been made, but was not, for example the general practitioner's surgery. Code 6 'Migratory' is not a valid code for the Medical Indemnity National Collection. Code 9 'Not stated/inadequately described' should be used only when the information is not currently available, but is expected to become available as the medical indemnity claim progresses. |