Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Patients admitted through emergency department with LOS <8 hours (percentage) |
METEOR identifier: | 717687 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 |
Description: | For all patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department (including publicly funded emergency departments), the percentage of presentations where the time from presentation to physical departure, i.e. the length of the Emergency department stay, is within eight hours. |
Indicator set: | Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/01/2020 |
Outcome area: | Emergency Department access Tasmanian Health, Standard 07/12/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | The scope for calculation of this indicator is all hospitals reporting to the Non-admitted patient emergency department care (NAPEDC) National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) 2016–17. Calculation includes all presentations with a physical departure date/time in the reporting period, including records where the presentation date/time is prior to the reporting period. Invalid records are excluded from the numerator and denominator. Invalid records are records for which:
Calculation includes presentations with any Type of visit to emergency department. Recording departure time Emergency department (ED) stay length is the amount of time, measured in minutes, between when a patient presents at an emergency department, and when the patient physically departs the emergency department. It is calculated as per the guidelines included in the NAPEDC NMDS 2016–17:
Presentation time and date are the time and date of the first recorded contact with an emergency department staff member. The first recorded contact can be the commencement of the clerical registration or triage process, whichever happens first. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of emergency department presentations where emergency department stay length is less than or equal to eight hours. |
Numerator data elements: | |
Denominator: | Number of emergency department presentations. |
Denominator data elements: | |
Disaggregation: | Specified disaggregation: Hospital and reporting month based on the date of the end of the emergency department stay |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN[N] |
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