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Out-of-home care

459120 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Out-of-home care (OOHC) is one of a range of programs provided to children and young people under 18 years of age who are in need of care and protection. This program provides alternative overnight accommodation for children and young people who are unable to live with their parents. These arrangements include foster care, placements with relatives or kin and residential care. In most cases, children in out-of-home care are also on a care and protection order of some kind.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Children and Families

Condition onset flag code N

496510 | Value Domain | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A code set representing the onset of a diagnosed condition relative to the beginning of the episode of care.
Superseded: Health

National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database Data quality statement: 2011-12

497269 | Data Quality Statement
The National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDC) is a compilation of episode-level data for emergency department presentations in public hospitals. The scope of the NNAPEDCD is non-admitted patients registered for care in emergency departments in public hospital peer groups A and B (Principal referral and specialist women’s and children’s and Large hospitals). Some states and territories also provided data for public hospitals that were classified in peer groups o...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-Mortality rates (and excess deaths) by leading causes for children under 5, 2012 QS

480328 | Data Quality Statement
Superseded: Indigenous

National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database Data Quality Statement:2010-11

511369 | Data Quality Statement
The National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD) includes episode-level data on non-admitted patients treated in the emergency departments of Australian public hospitals. The data supplied are based on the NMDS for Non-admitted patient emergency department care (NAPEDC NMDS). While the scope of the NNAPEDCD covers public hospitals in public hospital peer groups A and B (Principal referral and specialist women’s and children’s hospitals and Large hospitals) in Aust...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Blood transfusion due to primary postpartum haemorrhage indicator

522206 | Property | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
An indicator of whether blood or blood products or substitutes were received intravenously due to abnormal or excessive bleeding from the genital tract within the first 24 hours postpartum.
Superseded: Health

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 08-Tobacco smoking during pregnancy, 2013 QS

523315 | Data Quality Statement
The Perinatal national minimum data set (NMDS) includes two standardised data items on smoking during pregnancy for births from July 2010: smoking during first twenty weeks of pregnancy and smoking after twenty weeks of pregnancy. However, not all states and territories have yet updated data collections to include the standard items. Before July 2010 and for jurisdictions that have not introduced the standard smoking items to their perinatal data collections the data made available as part of th...
Superseded: Indigenous

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-The proportion of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years who are enrolled in, and attending, a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling, by remoteness, 2013 QS

523361 | Data Quality Statement
Superseded: Indigenous

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 05b-Positive predictive value of diagnostic assessment for detecting adenoma

533374 | Indicator | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Superseded: Health

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 09-Adverse events (hospital admission rate)

533409 | Indicator | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Superseded: Health

Episode of residential care—episode start mode

533526 | Data Element Concept
The reason for starting an episode of residential care.
Superseded: Health

Emergency department visit type code N

550706 | Value Domain
A code set representing the types of emergency department visits.
Superseded: Health

Service provider organisation—early childhood education program delivered by a qualified teacher indicator

563755 | Data Element Concept
An indicator of whether an early childhood education program was delivered by a qualified early childhood teacher who meets the National Quality Framework requirements.
Superseded: Early Childhood

Northern Territory Child Hearing Health Coordinator data collection, 2014; Quality Statement

602083 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The CHHC data collection contains data from CHHC services provided in the Northern Territory, funded by the Australian Government through the National Partnership Agreement on Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory (SFNT). The SFNT began in July 2012 and provides funding over a decade to 2021–22. The hearing health component of this agreement replaced, and expanded upon, services implemented under the Northern Territory Emergency Response Child Health Check Initiative and the Closing the Gap...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2016 QS

602217 | Data Quality Statement
This indicator is being reported for the first time (for 2013–14 and 2014–15) drawing on data collated under an agreement to report against the Public Dental Waiting Times (PDWT) National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Data are not comparable across jurisdictions due to differences in the way in which services are arranged and different arrangements that determine which people requiring treatment are placed on a public dental waiting list, including how jurisdictions prioritise certain disadvantage...
Superseded: Health

Non-admitted service type code (Tier 2 v4.1) NN.NN

614369 | Value Domain | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
The Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services (version 4.1) code set representing the type of service through which a hospital provides health care in a non-admitted setting.
Superseded: Health, Tasmanian Health

Always/Most of the time/Sometimes/Rarely/Never code N

614565 | Value Domain
A code set representing 'always', 'most of the time', 'sometimes', 'rarely' and 'never' responses.
Superseded: Health

Self-assessed mental health

614768 | Property | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An indicator of self-assessed mental level of health.
Superseded: Health

Northern Territory outreach audiology data collection, 2015; Quality Statement

618101 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Northern Territory outreach audiology data collection contains data from outreach audiology services provided in the Northern Territory, funded by two Australian Government programs: The National Partnership Agreement on Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory (SFNT) and the Healthy Ears—Better Hearing, Better Listening programme. The SFNT began in July 2012 and provides funding to 2021–22. The hearing health component of this agreement replaced, and expanded upon, services implemented un...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Mental health change since imprisonment type

605297 | Property | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The type of change in mental health status that occurred since the most recent imprisonment.
Superseded: Health

Prison dischargee—level of satisfaction with the amount they are involved in their own treatment

605514 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The level of satisfaction a prisoner feels with the amount of self involvement in their treatment.
Superseded: Health

Type of chronic condition diagnosed, prior to imprisonment

605517 | Property | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The type of health condition that is long term; has a pattern of recurrence, or deterioration; has a poor prognosis and produces consequences, or sequelae that impact on the individual's quality of life. Diagnosed prior to imprisonment.
Superseded: Health

Tympanic membrane perforation size code N

567831 | Value Domain | Department of Health, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A code set representing the tympanic membrane perforation size.
Superseded: Indigenous

Quality early childhood education program

606533 | Glossary Item | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
A quality early childhood education program is an early childhood education program which is delivered in the year before full-time schooling by a qualified early childhood teacher, in accordance with the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standard.
Superseded: Early Childhood

Prison dischargee—type of treated chronic condition, treatment offered during imprisonment

605825 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The type of treated chronic condition from which a prison dischargee suffers, with treatment offered during their most recent imprisonment.
Superseded: Health

Home purchase assistance 2012-13 Data Quality Statement

580944 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
All states and territories provide the AIHW with Home Purchase Assistance (HPA) data from their administrative systems. The AIHW compiles this data for annual national reporting on the National Affordable Housing Agreement and internal publications and bulletins. Care should be taken when comparing data across jurisdictions, given differences in the types of HPA programs run and differences in the broader jurisdictional housing systems. Care should also be taken when comparing data across time d...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children enrolled in an early childhood education program

557591 | Data Element Concept
The number of Indigenous children enrolled in an early childhood education program at the service.
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks

608357 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The number of weeks that the service provider organisation is open to provide early childhood education program services.
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks

557222 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The number of weeks that the service provider organisation is open to provide early childhood education program services.
Superseded: Early Childhood

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program screening data: 2013–14; Quality Statement

608831 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Summary of Key Issues The National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) is managed by the Australian Government Department of Health in partnership with state and territory governments. The NBCSP is monitored annually by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Results are compiled and reported at the national level by the AIHW in an annual NBCSP monitoring report. NBCSP data depend on the return of data forms from participants, general practitioners, colonoscopists and patholo...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2015 QS

559121 | Data Quality Statement
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Incidence of heart attacks (acute coronary events), 2015 QS

559125 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This indicator estimates the incidence of acute coronary events from the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) and the National Mortality Database (NMD). The methodology for estimating the incidence of acute coronary events is based on AIHW analysis of hospital and mortality data, and has been validated using linked data from WA and NSW. The accuracy of the estimates is reliant on the accuracy and consistency of coding of the principal diagnosis and underlying cause of death in each juris...
Superseded: Health

Adoptions Australia Data Quality Statement 2014–15

625060 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
• The Adoptions Australia collection contains data on adopted children, their adoptive families and birth mothers, as well as information on the number of contact/information requests and vetoes lodged by parties to an adoption. Data are collected on intercountry, local and known child adoptions. Additional data are also collected on the length of time of different intercountry adoption processes. • The small population of the report creates some issues for reporting data. Proportional changes...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Social Housing Survey, 2014; Data Quality Statement

600874 | Data Quality Statement | The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Summary The 2014 National Social Housing Survey (NSHS) collects information from tenants of three social housing programs - public housing (PH), mainstream community housing (CH) and state owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH). The NSHS provides information on characteristics of tenants, information about their housing histories, their satisfaction with their housing and information about their household's use of other health and community services. The response rate for the 2014 surve...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Community Housing Data Collection, 2015–16; Quality Statement

659303 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description Data are provided annually to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) by jurisdictions and are sourced from Community Housing Organisations (CHOs) via a survey and from the jurisdiction’s administrative systems. The annual data collection captures information about CHOs, the dwellings and tenancy rental units they manage, households on the waiting list, and the tenants and households assisted. Limited financial information from the previous financial year is also collec...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Australian Cancer Database, 2013; Quality Statement

658607 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Important note To avoid excessive repetition in this data quality statement, the word ‘cancer’ is used to mean ‘cancer, excluding basal cell carcinomas of the skin and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin’. In most states and territories these two skin cancers are not notifiable diseases, and in any case are not collected, and as such are not in the scope of the Australian Cancer Database (ACD). Summary of Key Points All states and territories have legislation that makes cancer a notifiable dise...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Residential mental health care NMDS 2015–16: National Residential Mental Health Care Database, 2017; Quality Statement

674740 | Data Quality Statement
The National Residential Mental Health Care Database (NRMHCD) contains data on episodes of residential care provided by government-funded, 24-hour staffed, residential mental health services in Australia. The inclusion of government-funded, non-government-operated services and services that are not staffed for 24 hours a day is optional. The Indigenous status data should be interpreted with caution due to the varying quality of Indigenous identification. Description The National Residentia...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Perinatal Data Collection, 2014: Quality Statement

657522 | Data Quality Statement
The National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) is a national population-based cross-sectional collection of data on pregnancy and childbirth. The data are based on births reported to the perinatal data collection in each state and territory in Australia. Midwives and other birth attendants, using information obtained from mothers and from hospital or other records, complete notification forms for each birth. A standard de-identified extract is provided to the Australian Institute of Health and We...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 02-Mortality rate by leading causes, 2018; Quality Statement

689660 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Superseded: Indigenous

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-Proportion of Indigenous children who are enrolled in (and attending, where possible to measure) a preschool program in the year before formal schooling, 2018; Quality Statement

689644 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Preschool Education, Australia (ABS 2017) is compiled from data from the National Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Collection (NECECC). Data for the NECECC have been compiled according to the national standards outlined in the Early Childhood Education and Care National Minimum Data Set (ECEC NMDS) Statistics in this publication are presented according to Sector, Statistical Geography and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA).
Superseded: Indigenous

Community mental health care NMDS 2015–16: National Community Mental Health Care Database, 2017; Quality Statement

678386 | Data Quality Statement
The National Community Mental Health Care Database (NCMHCD) contains data on service contacts provided by public sector specialised community mental health services in Australia. There is some variation in the types of service contacts included in the data. For example, some states or territories may include written correspondence as service contacts while others do not. The Indigenous status data should be interpreted with caution due to the varying quality of Indigenous identification acros...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Type of hypertensive disorder during pregnancy code N

717971 | Value Domain | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A code set representing the type of hypertensive disorder during pregnancy.
Superseded: Health

Online Services Report (OSR) Database, 2016–17; Quality Statement

688427 | Data Quality Statement | AIHW
The Online Services Report (OSR) annually collects information from organisations that receive Australian Government funding to provide health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The main data quality issues identified in the 2016–17 collection were incomplete reporting and data discrepancies between two or more questions. As part of the collection, AIHW staff contacted organisations to follow up data queries and to request revised data where necessary. In 2016–17, 266 (97%...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

State Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing Data Collection, 2019–20; Quality Statement

731016 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description Five states and territories—New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory—provide a range of State Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing (SOMIH) programs and maintain administrative data sets about these programs. Extracts of these data sets are provided annually to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). This collection contains information about SOMIH dwellings, households assisted and households on the waiting list. Data are provid...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Finalised adoption

689417 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An adoption order that was completed during the reporting period. This includes orders that were made in Australia, and, in the case of some intercountry adoptions, where the full adoption order was made in the country of origin. The way in which an adoption is finalised depends on the process used in the country of origin and the procedures of the state or territory department responsible for adoption in Australia.
Superseded: Children and Families

Health expenditure database 2017–18; Quality Statement

721415 | Data Quality Statement
Summary of key issues Total health expenditure, as reported from the AIHW health expenditure database, excludes some types of health-related expenditure, including health-related Australian Defence Force expenditure, some local government expenditure and some non-government organisation expenditure, such as that by the National Health Foundation and Diabetes Australia. State and territory estimates are intended to give an indication of differences in the overall levels of expenditure on heal...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Home Purchase Assistance Collection, 2018–19; Quality Statement

721482 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description States and territories provide financial assistance to households to improve their access to home ownership through a number of programs and maintain administrative data sets about these programs. Extracts of these data sets are provided annually to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The Home Purchase Assistance (HPA) programs offered by the states and territories are: direct lending (Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, the Australian Ca...
Superseded: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Ambulatory care

722178 | Glossary Item | Health Expenditure Advisory Committee
Care provided to hospital patients who are not admitted to the hospital, such as patients of emergency departments and outpatient clinics. The term is also used to refer to care provided to patients of community-based (non-hospital) health-care services.
Superseded: Health

Hague Convention

722866 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A convention—specifically, the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption—that establishes standards and procedures for adoptions between countries. The Hague Convention includes legally binding safeguards and a system of supervision, and establishes channels of communication between countries. It came into force in Australia on 1 December 1998. An intercountry adoption is classified as a Hague adoption, Bilateral adoption or known child inte...
Superseded: Children and Families

Abuse in care

742259 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
In the context of the Australian child protection systems in operation in each state and territory, abuse in care refers to instances of abuse of children in out-of-home care, on third party parental orders, or on other orders that transfer full or partial parental responsibility for the child to an authority of the State. It can involve physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. Abuse in care includes instances where the person held responsible is: a) the approved carer b) anoth...
Superseded: Children and Families

Birth—birth order

269428 | Data Element Concept
The sequential order of each baby of a multiple birth.
Superseded: Health, Tasmanian Health

Health service event—referral to rehabilitation service date

269431 | Data Element Concept
The date on which a person is referred to a rehabilitation service.
Superseded: Health

Birth event—birth plurality

269433 | Data Element Concept
The number of babies resulting from a single pregnancy.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Perineal status code N

270610 | Value Domain
A code set representing the state of the perineum.
Superseded: Health

Onset of labour code N

270611 | Value Domain
A code set representing the manner in which labour started.
Superseded: Health

Floor/level type code A[A]

270612 | Value Domain
A code set representing the type of floor or level of a multi-storey building/complex.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Birth presentation code N

270618 | Value Domain
A code set representing types of birth presentation.
Superseded: Health

Patient—initial visit since diagnosis status (diabetes mellitus)

269573 | Data Element Concept | National Diabetes Data Working Group
Whether this is the initial visit of the patient to a health professional for diabetes or a related condition after diagnosis has been established.
Superseded: Health

Episode of residential care—referral destination (mental health care)

269593 | Data Element Concept
The type of specialised mental health care service the resident is referred to by the residential mental health care service for further care at the end of residential stay.
Superseded: Health

Birth event—labour onset type

269460 | Data Element Concept
The manner in which labour started in a birth event.
Superseded: Health

Person—person identifier (within establishment/agency)

269523 | Data Element Concept | National Health Data Committee, National Community Services Data Committee
Person identifier unique within an establishment or agency.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Indicator procedure code NN

270587 | Value Domain
A code set representing indicator procedures.
Superseded: Health
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Establishment—revenue (patient)

269518 | Data Element Concept | National minimum data set working parties
Patient revenue comprises all revenue received by, and due to, an establishment in respect of individual patient liability for accommodation and other establishment charges. All patient revenue is to be grouped together regardless of source of payment (Commonwealth, health fund, insurance company, direct from patient) or status of patient (whether inpatient or non-inpatient, private or compensable). Gross revenue should be reported. Note: The Commonwealth contribution in respect of residential a...
Superseded: Health

Pregnancy/childbirth and puerperium code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

270594 | Value Domain
The ICD-10-AM (3rd edition) code set representing maternal diseases, conditions, illnesses, complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth events.
Superseded: Health

Labour induction code N

270646 | Value Domain
A code set representing types of labour induction.
Superseded: Health

Elective surgery code NN

270728 | Value Domain
A code set representing types of elective surgery.
Superseded: Health
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Episode of care—behaviour-related risk factor intervention

269626 | Data Element Concept
The intervention taken to modify or manage the patient's behaviour-related risk factor(s).
Superseded: Health

Department of Veterans' Affairs file number identifier AAXXNNNN[A]

270686 | Value Domain
A combination of alphanumeric characters that identify a Department of Veterans' Affairs customer.
Superseded: Health

Medicare eligibility status code N

270689 | Value Domain
A code set representing eligibility for Medicare services.
Superseded: Health

Person—first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting time

285185 | Data Element Concept
The time of the first angioplasty balloon inflation or stent placement.
Superseded: Health

Person—first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting date

284977 | Data Element Concept
Date of the first angioplasty balloon inflation or stent placement.
Superseded: Health

Electrocardiogram (ECG) change location code N

285069 | Value Domain | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A code set representing the area in which the change is located on the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG).
Superseded: Health

Functional stress test element

285091 | Property | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The element included in an electrocardiogram stress test.
Superseded: Health

Person—functional stress test ischaemic result

285101 | Data Element Concept
Indicates the result of the person's electrocardiogram stress in terms of ischaemic outcome.
Superseded: Health

Chest pain code N

284819 | Value Domain | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A code set describing a chest pain pattern.
Superseded: Health

Person—heart rhythm type

285129 | Data Element Concept
The type of rhythm associated with the beating of the heart as determined from the electrocardiogram (ECG).
Superseded: Health

Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (consumer consultants)

287708 | Data Element Concept
The aggregate full-time equivalent staff units paid for all consumer consultants within an establishment.
Superseded: Health

Triage category code N

651988 | Value Domain | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
A code set representing the triage categories.
Superseded: Health

Non-admitted patient service event—group session status

650416 | Data Element Concept | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
An indicator of whether a non-admitted patient service event was delivered in a group.
Superseded: Health

Episode of mental health care—episode start mode

654197 | Data Element Concept
The mechanism by which a person begins an episode of mental health care.
Superseded: Health

Person—family violence screening status

693506 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Whether a person has received screening for family violence.
Superseded: Health

Active resuscitation method code N[N]

695565 | Value Domain | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
A code set representing active methods of resuscitation.
Superseded: Health

Elective surgery

327226 | Glossary Item | Hospital access program waiting list working group
Elective care where the procedures required by patients are listed in the surgical operations section of the Medicare benefits schedule book, with the exclusion of specific procedures frequently done by non-surgical clinicians.
Superseded: Health

Triage

334003 | Glossary Item
The process by which a patient is briefly assessed upon arrival in the emergency department to determine the urgency of their problem and priority for care.
Superseded: Health, Tasmanian Health

Psychiatry registrar or trainee

327344 | Glossary Item
A medical officer who is a formal trainee within the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Postgraduate Training Program.
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P13-Proportion of children with 4th year developmental health checks, 2010 QS

392615 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items included in this indicator do not cover all developmental health check activity such as that conducted through state and territory early childhood health assessments in preschools and community health centres. The analyses by state/territory, remoteness and socioeconomic status are based on postcode of residence of the client as recorded by Medicare Australia at the date of last service received in the reference period. As clients may receive services ...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2010 QS

392646 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Coverage of the data collection is almost complete for public hospitals in peer groups A and B. Hospitals in these peer groups provided approximately 69% of all Emergency Department services. The quality of the data reported for Indigenous status in emergency departments has not been formally assessed for completeness; therefore, caution should be exercised when interpreting these data. As the indicator is limited to hospitals in peer groups A and B, disaggregation by remoteness and Indigenous...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P41-Falls resulting in patient harm in hospitals, 2010 QS

393039 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive dataset that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. Data on falls are recorded uniformly using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM). The recorded number of falls occurring in hospitals may be an under-estimate (as around 25% of the records of separatio...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P34-Waiting times for elective surgery, 2010 QS

393035 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection (NESWTDC) contains records for patients removed from waiting lists for elective surgery which are managed by public acute hospitals. For 2007–08, coverage of the NESWTDC was about 91% of elective surgery in Australian public hospitals. The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive dataset that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. Recor...
Superseded: Health

Ambulatory care

354366 | Glossary Item | Health Expenditure Advisory Committee
Care provided to hospital patients who are not admitted to the hospital, such as patients of emergency departments and outpatient clinics. The term is also used to refer to care provided to patients of community-based (non-hospital) health-care services.
Superseded: Health
Qualified: Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 01-Proportion of babies born with low birth weight, 2011 QS

447891 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Birthweight is included in the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) and data are complete for over 99.9 per cent of babies. This measure only includes births of at least 20 weeks gestation or 400 grams birthweight. It excludes multiple births and stillbirths and the measure may therefore differ slightly from information presented in other publications on low birthweight. The National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) includes information on the Indigenous status of the mother only. Since 20...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P65-Net growth in health workforce, 2010 QS

393094 | Data Quality Statement
Results of the surveys are estimates because the raw data have undergone imputation and weighting to adjust for non response. It should be noted that any of these adjustments may have introduced some bias in the final survey data and any bias is likely to become more pronounced as response rates decline. Care should be taken when drawing conclusions about the size of the differences between estimates. Care is also advised with state and territory comparisons because of low response rates in some...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Bowel cancer screening rates, 2011 QS

447975 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The suspension of the NBCSP due to a fault in the FOBT kit, and the subsequent remediation process, greatly affected the COAG participation rates for 2009 and should be taken into account when comparing to previous or future COAG data for this indicator. Participation rates were lower when measured against the estimated resident population because fewer people had an opportunity to participate as a result of: the suspension of the NBCSP between 2 May 2009 and 9 November 2009 during which no inv...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 67-Capital expenditure on health and aged care facilities as a proportion of capital consumption expenditure on health and aged care facilities, 2011 QS

449089 | Data Quality Statement
· The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) health expenditure database is a comprehensive collection of expenditure data across all jurisdictions, and the private sector, and encompasses all areas of health expenditure from hospitals to medical services to public health activities. · The indicator includes expenditure on publicly owned and/or controlled health and aged care facilities only. A very small amount of capital expenditure for the community aged care sector by State h...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 27: Optometry services, 2011 QS

448124 | Data Quality Statement
The data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to service providers and has accurate data on the number of services provided. Medicare data presented by Indigenous status have been adjusted for under-identification in the Medicare Australia Voluntary Indigenous Identifier (VII) database. Optometry claims that are reimbursed through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs are not included in this measure.
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 02-Incidence of selected cancers, 2013 QS

507189 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The 1982–2009 data files for New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory were not available for inclusion in the 2009 version of the Australian Cancer Database (ACD). An extended delay with receipt of mortality data from the Council of Australian Registrars has meant that New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory have not been able to close off their 2009 data sets. As a consequence 2009 cancer data for these jurisdictions is not available for reporting purposes. Therefore, t...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers (Patient Experience Survey), 2014 QS

517745 | Data Quality Statement
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b-Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion completed within four hours, 2014 QS

517731 | Data Quality Statement
The scope of the data used to produce this indicator is non-admitted patients registered for care in emergency departments in public hospitals reporting to the Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NAPEDC) National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) (Peer Groups A, B and other) as at August 2011 (when the National Health Reform Agreement National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services was signed). For 2011–12, the coverage of the National Non-admitted Patient Emerge...
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 28-Proportion of residential aged care services that are three year re-accredited, 2014 QS

517715 | Data Quality Statement
The data are restricted to re-accreditations within the previous financial year. The data exclude those homes that are reviewed during a financial year for possible systemic failures. Remoteness data for 2011–12 are not directly comparable to remoteness data for 2012–13 and subsequent years.
Superseded: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2013 QS

511911 | Data Quality Statement
Superseded: Health

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Out-of-home care

Condition onset flag code N

National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database Data quality statement: 2011-12

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-Mortality rates (and excess deaths) by leading causes for children under 5, 2012 QS

National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database Data Quality Statement:2010-11

Blood transfusion due to primary postpartum haemorrhage indicator

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 08-Tobacco smoking during pregnancy, 2013 QS

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-The proportion of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years who are enrolled in, and attending, a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling, by remoteness, 2013 QS

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 05b-Positive predictive value of diagnostic assessment for detecting adenoma

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 09-Adverse events (hospital admission rate)

Episode of residential care—episode start mode

Emergency department visit type code N

Service provider organisation—early childhood education program delivered by a qualified teacher indicator

Northern Territory Child Hearing Health Coordinator data collection, 2014; Quality Statement

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2016 QS

Non-admitted service type code (Tier 2 v4.1) NN.NN

Always/Most of the time/Sometimes/Rarely/Never code N

Self-assessed mental health

Northern Territory outreach audiology data collection, 2015; Quality Statement

Mental health change since imprisonment type

Prison dischargee—level of satisfaction with the amount they are involved in their own treatment

Type of chronic condition diagnosed, prior to imprisonment

Tympanic membrane perforation size code N

Quality early childhood education program

Prison dischargee—type of treated chronic condition, treatment offered during imprisonment

Home purchase assistance 2012-13 Data Quality Statement

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children enrolled in an early childhood education program

Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks

Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program screening data: 2013–14; Quality Statement

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2015 QS

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Incidence of heart attacks (acute coronary events), 2015 QS

Adoptions Australia Data Quality Statement 2014–15

National Social Housing Survey, 2014; Data Quality Statement

Community Housing Data Collection, 2015–16; Quality Statement

Australian Cancer Database, 2013; Quality Statement

Residential mental health care NMDS 2015–16: National Residential Mental Health Care Database, 2017; Quality Statement

National Perinatal Data Collection, 2014: Quality Statement

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 02-Mortality rate by leading causes, 2018; Quality Statement

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-Proportion of Indigenous children who are enrolled in (and attending, where possible to measure) a preschool program in the year before formal schooling, 2018; Quality Statement

Community mental health care NMDS 2015–16: National Community Mental Health Care Database, 2017; Quality Statement

Type of hypertensive disorder during pregnancy code N

Online Services Report (OSR) Database, 2016–17; Quality Statement

State Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing Data Collection, 2019–20; Quality Statement

Finalised adoption

Health expenditure database 2017–18; Quality Statement

Home Purchase Assistance Collection, 2018–19; Quality Statement

Ambulatory care

Hague Convention

Abuse in care

Birth—birth order

Health service event—referral to rehabilitation service date

Birth event—birth plurality

Perineal status code N

Onset of labour code N

Floor/level type code A[A]

Birth presentation code N

Patient—initial visit since diagnosis status (diabetes mellitus)

Episode of residential care—referral destination (mental health care)

Birth event—labour onset type

Person—person identifier (within establishment/agency)

Indicator procedure code NN

Establishment—revenue (patient)

Pregnancy/childbirth and puerperium code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

Labour induction code N

Elective surgery code NN

Episode of care—behaviour-related risk factor intervention