Health-care incident—geographic remoteness, remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) code N
Data Element Attributes
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: | 531677 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
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 (ASGS-RA) N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2011 | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | Number | |
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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Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Publications detailing the ASGS remoteness classification are available free of charge from the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2013. 1270.055.005 - Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 5 - Remoteness Structure, July 2011. Viewed 15 July 2013, |
Reference documents: | 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 APMRC website: Australian Population and Migration Research Centre (APMRC) 2013. ARIA (Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia). Viewed 15 July 2013, |
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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 map location or its Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1). The remoteness classification (RA1 to RA5) can be found with knowledge of the map location or SA1 of the hospital or other health service provider at which the health-care incident occurred. State/territory maps displaying remoteness areas are available from 'ASGS Remoteness Structure Edition 2011 PDF Maps'. Mapping between SA1 and remoteness area is detailed in the 'Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1) to Remoteness Area (RA) ASGS Edition 2011 in csv. Format' data cube. The website with these and other aids for remoteness classification can be accessed via the following link: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/ The SA1 ('Region code') of a region, along with other relevant information, can be found on the interactive map of Australia accessible via the following link: http://betaworks.abs.gov.au/betaworks/betaworks.nsf/ 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 where the diagnosis should have been made, but was not, for example the general practitioner's surgery. 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. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics. 1270.0.55.005 - ASGS Remoteness Structure Edition 2011 PDF Maps. Viewed 15 July 2013. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/ Australian Bureau of Statistics. Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1) to Remoteness Area (RA) ASGS Edition 2011 in csv format. Viewed 15 July 2013. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/ Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia's ASGS statistical boundaries. Viewed 15 July 2013. http://betaworks.abs.gov.au/betaworks/betaworks.nsf/ |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Health-care incident—geographic remoteness, remoteness classification (ASGC-RA) N Health, Superseded 21/11/2013 Has been superseded by Health-care incident—geographic remoteness, remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) code N Health, Standard 06/09/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Medical indemnity NBPDS 2014- Health, Standard 21/11/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 DSS specific information: Code 6, 'Migratory', is not a valid code in this data set. |