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ABS birth registration data, 2008 QS

449204 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

ABS causes of death collection, QS

449206 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

ABS death registrations collection, 2009 QS

449208 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

ABS Estimated resident population (total population), QS

449216 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections, QS

449223 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health, Indigenous

ABS Perinatal deaths collection, 2008 QS

449232 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P09-Immunisation rates for vaccines in the national schedule (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey), 2010 QS

408729 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P11-Cervical cancer screening rates (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey), 2010 QS

408733 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P26-Dental services (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey), 2010 QS

408737 | Data Quality Statement
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P31-Proportion of people with asthma with a written asthma plan, 2010 QS

407921 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P60-Access to services by type of service compared to need, 2010 QS

407970 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P63-Children's hearing loss, 2010 QS

408003 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: P64b-Indigenous Australians in the health workforce, 2010 QS

408265 | Data Quality Statement
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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 01-Proportion of babies born with low birth weight, 2017, QS

630365 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The data used to calculate this indicator are from the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC), which is a national population-based cross-sectional data collection of pregnancy and childbirth. Data supplied for the NPDC consist of the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS), as well as a series of additional data items. The Perinatal NMDS is an agreed set of standardised perinatal data elements for mandatory supply by states and territories to support national reporting. This measure exc...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 02-Incidence of selected cancers, 2017 QS

630377 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The most recent data available for inclusion in this indicator are 2012 for New South Wales and 2013 for the other jurisdictions. This indicator only counts one year of incidence data. For jurisdictions that record relatively small numbers of cancers, rates may fluctuate widely from year to year; these changes should be interpreted with caution. The completeness of Indigenous identification in cancer registry data varies between jurisdictions. Those with sufficiently complete identification to...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 02-Incidence of selected cancers, 2018 QS

681692 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The most recent data available for inclusion in this indicator are 2013 for New South Wales and 2014 for the other jurisdictions. This indicator only counts one year of incidence data. For jurisdictions that record relatively small numbers of cancers, rates may fluctuate widely from year to year; these changes should be interpreted with caution. The completeness of Indigenous identification in cancer registry data varies between jurisdictions. Those with sufficiently complete identification to...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 02-Incidence of sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses, 2012 QS

500978 | Data Quality Statement
The data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for real-time surveillance of communicable diseases. Data are reportable under jurisdictional public health legislation. A major limitation of the notifications data is that, for most diseases, they represent only a proportion of the total cases occurring in the community, that is, only those cases for which health care was sought and a diagnosis made, followed by a notification to health authorities. T...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Incidence of end-stage kidney disease, 2012 QS

500962 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This indicator estimates the incidence of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) from linked mortality and Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA) data. It does not include people with ESKD who were not on the ANZDATA Registry and did not die in the reference period. The coding list used to estimate ESKD from mortality data is conservative. For disaggregation by State and Territory and Indigenous status, data have been reported for four aggregated years to ensure statisti...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2017 QS

658459 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2017 QS

658457 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 05-Levels of risky alcohol consumption, 2017 QS

658455 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Bureau of Statistics
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2017 QS

630383 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2018 QS

681690 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2017 QS

630399 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2018 QS

681833 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08-Major causes of death, 2017 QS

630403 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08-Major causes of death, 2018 QS

681635 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Immunisation rates for vaccines in the national schedule (Adult Vaccination Survey), 2011 QS

447917 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Adult Vaccination Survey is a random, stratified, Computer Assisted Telephone Interview survey covering residential households in all parts of Australia. Only households with fixed-line telephones are included. Determining ‘fully vaccinated’ status is challenging because of the recommendations for two doses of pneumococcal vaccination, with the second dose given 5 years after the first dose. The overall quality of the estimates may be affected by survey respondents ability to recall vaccinat...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Immunisation rates for vaccines in the national schedule (Australian Childhood Immunisation Register), 2012 QS

500950 | Data Quality Statement
The data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection—the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR)—for which there is an incentive payment for notification, and there are further incentives for parents to have their child’s vaccination status up to date. The Register is linked to the Medicare enrolment register, and approximately 99 per cent of children are registered with Medicare by 12 months of age. Data has been reported using the ACIR definition of f...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Incidence of heart attacks (acute coronary events), 2017 QS

630419 | 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 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) analysis of hospital and mortality data, and has been validated using linked data from Western Australia and New South Wales. The accuracy of the estimates is reliant on the accuracy and consistency of cod...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Incidence of heart attacks (acute coronary events), 2018 QS

681633 | 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 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) analysis of hospital and mortality data, and has been validated using linked data from Western Australia and New South Wales. The accuracy of the estimates is reliant on the accuracy and consistency of cod...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 10-Breast cancer screening rates, 2012 QS

500946 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Remoteness and socioeconomic status are based on postcode of residential address at the time of screening, not the location of screening. State/Territory disaggregation by remoteness and socioeconomic status is subject to data quality considerations. Indigenous status data are only available at the national level as numbers are too small to provide meaningful comparison between jurisdictions.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 10-Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, 2015 QS

559146 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11-Cervical screening rates, 2012 QS

500681 | Data Quality Statement
Remoteness and socioeconomic status are based on postcode of residential address at the time of screening, not the location of screening. State/territory disaggregation by remoteness and socioeconomic status is subject to data quality considerations. Hysterectomy fractions are derived from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) National Hospitals Morbidity Database. Indigenous status is not collected by cervical cytology registers.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11-Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2017 QS

658445 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Bowel cancer screening rates, 2012 QS

500678 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The suspension of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) due to a fault in the Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) kit, and the subsequent remediation process, greatly affected the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) participation rates for 2009 and 2010. This should be taken into account when comparing these years to previous or future COAG data for this indicator. Remoteness and socioeconomic status are based on postcode of residential address at the time of screening. Indigeno...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs (Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey), 2014 QS

595799 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2017 QS

630424 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2018 QS

681631 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Proportion of children with 4th year developmental health check, 2012 QS

500670 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Insititute 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 and Territory, remoteness and Socio-Economics Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) are based on postcode of residence of the client as recorded by Medicare Australia at the date the last service was processed in the reference period. A...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry (Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey), 2014 QS

595827 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2018 QS

681595 | Data Quality Statement
Data are being reported for 2016–17 from 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 disadvantaged population groups. Therefore the calculation of...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers (Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey), 2014 QS

595845 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers, 2017 QS

630429 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers, 2018 QS

681629 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 15-Effective management of diabetes, 2015 QS

559144 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths, 2017 QS

630433 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths, 2018 QS

681627 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 17-Treatment rate for mental illness, 2016 QS

600096 | Data Quality Statement
State and Territory jurisdictions differ in their approaches to counting clients under care, including different thresholds for registering a client. Additionally, they differ in their capacity to provide accurate estimates of individual persons receiving mental health services. Therefore comparisons between jurisdictions need to be made with caution. The Indigenous status data should be interpreted with caution: public sector community mental health services (Public) data: There is...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18-Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations, 2017 QS

630441 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. Separations are reported by the jurisdiction of usual residence of the patient, not the jurisdiction of hospitalisation. The specification for this performance indicator was revised for the 2015 reporting period. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) recalculated this indicator for...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18-Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations, 2018 QS

681623 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. Separations are reported by the jurisdiction of usual residence of the patient, not the jurisdiction of hospitalisation. The specification for this performance indicator was revised for the 2015 reporting period. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) recalculated this indicator for...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2017 QS

630444 | 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 National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD). It does not include emergency presentations to hospitals that have emergency departments that are not reported to the NNAPEDCD. For 2015–16, Australian Capital Territory emergency department care information was not available at the time of publication. For 20...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2018 QS

681621 | 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 National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD). It does not include emergency presentations to hospitals that have emergency departments that are not reported to the NNAPEDCD. For 2016–17, the coverage of the NNAPEDCD is considered complete for public hospitals with emergency departments that meet the criteri...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting time in days, 2017 QS

630447 | Data Quality Statement
The National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection (NESWTDC) contains records for patients removed from waiting lists for elective surgery (as either an elective or emergency case) which are managed by public acute hospitals. For 2014–15, coverage of the NESWTDC was about 92% of elective surgery in Australian public hospitals. For 2015–16, the preliminary estimate of the proportion of public elective surgery that was also reported to the NESWTDC is 92% (excluding data for the Australi...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20a-Waiting times for elective surgery: waiting time in days, 2018 QS

681619 | Data Quality Statement
The National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection (NESWTDC) contains records for patients removed from waiting lists for elective surgery (as either an elective or emergency case) which are managed by public acute hospitals. For 2015–16, coverage of the NESWTDC was about 94% of elective surgery in Australian public hospitals (excluding data for the Australian Capital Territory). For 2016–17, the preliminary estimate of the proportion of public elective surgery that was also reported ...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2017 QS

630451 | 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 National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD). It does not include emergency presentations to hospitals that have emergency departments that are not reported to the NNAPEDCD. For 2015–16, the coverage of the NNAPEDCD is considered complete for public hospitals with emergency departments that meet the criter...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2018 QS

681617 | 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 National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD). It does not include emergency presentations to hospitals that have emergency departments that are not reported to the NNAPEDCD. For 2016–17, the coverage of the NNAPEDCD is considered complete for public hospitals with emergency departments that meet the criter...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion of patients whose length of emergency department stay is less than or equal to four hours, 2017 QS

630454 | 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 National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD). It does not include emergency presentations to hospitals that have emergency departments that are not reported to the NNAPEDCD. For 2015–16, the coverage of the NNAPEDCD is complete for public hospitals with emergency departments that meet the criteria specified...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion of patients whose length of emergency department stay is less than or equal to four hours, 2018 QS

681615 | 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 National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD). It does not include emergency presentations to hospitals that have emergency departments that are not reported to the NNAPEDCD. For 2016–17, the coverage of the NNAPEDCD is complete for public hospitals with emergency departments that meet the criteria specified...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 22-Healthcare associated infections; Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, 2017 QS

630457 | Data Quality Statement
The indicator uses a definition of a patient episode of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) agreed by all states and territories and used by all states and territories. There may be imprecise exclusion of private hospital and non-hospital patient episodes due to the inherent difficulties in determining the origins of SAB episodes. For some states and territories there is less than 100% coverage of public hospitals. For those jurisdictions with incomplete coverage of public hospitals (in ...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 22-Healthcare associated infections; Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, 2018 QS

681613 | Data Quality Statement
The indicator uses a definition of a patient episode of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) agreed by all states and territories and used by all states and territories. There may be imprecise exclusion of private hospital and non-hospital patient episodes due to the inherent difficulties in determining the origins of SAB episodes. For some states and territories there is less than 100% coverage of public hospitals. For those jurisdictions with incomplete coverage of public hospitals (in ...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Unplanned hospital readmission rates, 2017 QS

630507 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. The indicator is an underestimate of all possible unplanned/unexpected readmissions because: – it could only be calculated for public hospitals and for readmissions to the same hospital – episodes of non-admitted patient care provided in outpatient clinics or emergency departments which may have b...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Unplanned hospital readmission rates, 2018 QS

681611 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. The indicator is an underestimate of all possible unplanned/unexpected readmissions because: – it could only be calculated for public hospitals and for readmissions to the same hospital – episodes of non-admitted patient care provided in outpatient clinics or emergency departments which may have b...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2012 QS

500447 | 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. Information about Indigenous status is not available for this indicator in 2010‑11.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-Survival of people diagnosed with notifiable cancers, 2017 QS

658414 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This data quality statement refers to tables 24.1 (Five-year relative survival proportions for people diagnosed with cancer, by sex, 2009–2013) and 24.2 (Five-year relative survival proportions for people diagnosed with cancer, by sex, 2008–2012), which were produced from the 2013 and 2012 versions of the Australian Cancer Database (ACD), respectively. In what follows, comments about the 2013 ACD are given in the main text and the analogous comments about the 2012 ACD follow in square brackets [...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-Survival of people diagnosed with notifiable cancers, 2018 QS

681591 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The data used to calculate this indicator are accurate and of high quality. The mandatory reporting of cancers and deaths provides the most comprehensive data coverage possible. The most recent cancer incidence data available for the calculations were for the year 2013 for New South Wales and 2014 for all other jurisdictions.
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Rate of community follow up within first seven days of discharge from a psychiatric admission, 2016 QS

600112 | Data Quality Statement
States and territories vary in their capacity to accurately track post-discharge follow up between hospital and community service organisations, due to the lack of unique patient identifiers or data matching systems. For public sector community mental health services, Victorian data is unavailable (for 2011-12 and 2012-13) due to service level collection gaps resulting from protected industrial action during this period. Industrial action during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 collection periods in Tas...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Specialist services, 2012 QS

500445 | Data Quality Statement
This is a proxy measure for the indicator as it only includes specialist services reimbursed through the Medicare system (for out-of-hospital private patients) and not specialist services provided in public hospital outpatient and other settings (which are not reimbursed through the Medicare system). This measure does not reflect total Medicare-reimbursed specialist activity as it excludes specialist services provided to hospital inpatients (and reimbursed through the Medicare system). Informa...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Dental services, 2012 QS

500440 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The National Dental Telephone Interview Survey (NDTIS) is the most comprehensive source of population data on dental health and use of dental services in Australia. Children aged 0-4 years were excluded from service usage rates. Edentulous persons were excluded from service usage rates. As with all survey data, the indicator is subject to sampling error and non-response bias. To indicate the magnitude of sampling error, relative standard errors (RSE per cents) have been provided for rate esti...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Residential and community aged care places per 1,000 population aged 70+ years (and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50-69 years), 2017 QS

630514 | Data Quality Statement
The data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to service providers which has accurate data on the number and location of funded aged care places The presented measure excludes information about services delivered to older people under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) or its predecessor, the Home and Community Care program (HACC) Remoteness data for 2012 and previous years are not directly comparable to remo...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Residential and community aged care places per 1,000 population aged 70+ years (and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50-69 years), 2018 QS

681607 | Data Quality Statement
The data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to service providers which has accurate data on the number and location of funded aged care places The presented measure excludes information about services delivered to older people under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) or its predecessor, the Home and Community Care program (HACC) Remoteness data for 2012 and previous years are not directly comparable to remo...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 27-Number of hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2017 QS

630517 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. The indicator as presented is a proxy measure based on available data items in the NHMD. The indicator is not a count of patient days used by those eligible (as assessed and approved by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT)) and waiting for residential aged care. The indicator as presented is the numbe...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 27-Number of hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2018 QS

681605 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. The indicator as presented is a proxy measure based on available data items in the NHMD. The indicator is not a count of patient days used by those eligible (as assessed and approved by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT)) and waiting for residential aged care. The indicator as presented is the numbe...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 27-Optometry services, 2012 QS

500438 | 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. Information about Indigenous status is not available for this indicator in 2010‑11.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 28-Proportion of residential aged care services that are three year re-accredited, 2017 QS

630520 | Data Quality Statement
The data are restricted to re-accreditation site audits and review audits within the previous financial year. Remoteness data for 2011–12 are not directly comparable to remoteness data for 2012–13 and subsequent years.
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 28-Proportion of residential aged care services that are three year re-accredited, 2018 QS

681603 | Data Quality Statement
The data are restricted to re-accreditation site audits and review audits within the previous financial year. Remoteness data for 2011–12 are not directly comparable to remoteness data for 2012–13 and subsequent years.
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 28-Public sector community mental health services, 2012 QS

500433 | Data Quality Statement
The National Community Mental Health Care Database is a near-comprehensive collection of data on service contacts provided by specialised mental health services for patients/clients of all public sector community mental health services in Australia. There is some variation in the types of service contacts included across jurisdictions. The Indigenous status data should be interpreted with caution due to the varying and, in some instances, unknown quality of Indigenous identification across juris...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 29-Private sector mental health services, 2012 QS

500393 | Data Quality Statement
The numerator data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to patients and has accurate data on the number of services provided. Information about Indigenous status is not available for Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) data in 2010–11. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) data is not available by Indigenous status.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30-Elapsed time for aged care services, 2017 QS

630523 | Data Quality Statement
The measure of ‘elapsed time’ is used as a proxy for demand for aged care services, however there are many factors that cannot be categorised as time spent ‘waiting’ and not all ‘waiting’ time is included in this measure. Remoteness data for 2011–12 are not directly comparable to remoteness data for 2012–13 and subsequent years. Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) data for 2012–13 and subsequent years are not directly comparable with SEIFA data for 2011–12.
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30-Elapsed time for aged care services, 2018 QS

681601 | Data Quality Statement
The measure of ‘elapsed time’ is used as a proxy for demand for aged care services, however there are many factors that cannot be categorised as time spent ‘waiting’ and not all ‘waiting’ time is included in this measure. Remoteness data for 2011–12 are not directly comparable to remoteness data for 2012–13 and subsequent years. Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) data for 2012–13 and subsequent years are not directly comparable with SEIFA data for 2011–12.
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30-Proportion of people with diabetes who have a GP annual cycle of care, 2012 QS

500390 | Data Quality Statement
This indicator appears reliable at a national level. However, comparisons between jurisdictions and population groups may be problematic due to different population structures (including relative prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes) which have not been accounted for in the calculation of this indicator. Compared with other jurisdictions, results for the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory appear to be less reliable, perhaps due to their smaller population and lower coverage...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Patient satisfaction/experience (Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey), 2014 QS

596039 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2017 QS

630526 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2018 QS

681599 | Data Quality Statement
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Proportion of people with a mental illness with GP treatment plans, 2012 QS

500222 | Data Quality Statement
The numerator data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to patients and has accurate data on the number of services provided. There are issues with the consistency of the numerator and denominator for this indicator, as they are drawn from differently defined populations and different data sources.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2017 QS

630529 | Data Quality Statement
The rates have been calculated per 100,000 population for this indicator to assist with interpretation. Due to the differences in data collection, processing and estimation methods, including survey design and questionnaire, it is recommended that comparisons between workforce data from the National Health Workforce Data Set (NHWDS) and the previous Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Labour Force Survey be made with caution and noted in any analyses. Results for the indicator ar...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2018 QS

681597 | Data Quality Statement
The rates have been calculated per 100,000 population for this indicator to assist with interpretation. Due to the differences in data collection, processing and estimation methods, including survey design and questionnaire, it is recommended that comparisons between workforce data from the National Health Workforce Data Set (NHWDS) and the previous Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Labour Force Survey be made with caution and noted in any analyses. Results for the indicator ar...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Women with at least one antenatal visit in the first trimester of pregnancy, 2012 QS

500217 | Data Quality Statement
The Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) did not include antenatal care data items in 2009 and national data are not currently available. Information about antenatal care in the first trimester was provided to the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) for births in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory only. Antenatal care data items were collected using non-standardised definitions and with variable response rates. The validity of the data is unknown....
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 41-Falls resulting in patient harm in hospitals, 2012 QS

500201 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set 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 underestimate as around 24 per cent of the records of sepa...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 42-Intentional self-harm in hospitals, 2012 QS

500199 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. Data on self-harm 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 separations involving intentional self-harm may be an underestimate as around 35 per cent of ...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 45-Rates of services: Overnight separations, 2012 QS

500170 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. The number of overnight separations is considered to be more comparable than the total number of separations among jurisdictions and between the public and private sectors. This is because variation in admission practices and policies mainly lead to variation in the number of same-day admissions amon...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 46-Rates of services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2012 QS

500167 | Data Quality Statement
Variations in counting and classification practices and in admission practices and policies across jurisdictions may affect the comparability of these data. For 2009–10, Tasmania was not able to provide occasions of service data for one hospital that reported about 280,000 non-admitted patient occasions of service to the National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED) in 2008–09. This represented a little under one third of total Tasmanian occasions of service in 2008‑09. Therefore, Tasm...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 47-Rates of services: Non-acute care separations, 2012 QS

500158 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. There is some variation among jurisdictions in the assignment of care type categories. The number of overnight separations is considered to be more comparable than the total number of separations among jurisdictions and between the public and private sectors. This is because variation in admission pra...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 48-Rates of services: hospital procedures, 2012 QS

500123 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. Variations in admission practices and policies lead to variation among providers in the number of admissions for some conditions. Numerators for remoteness and socioeconomic status are based on the reported area of usual residence of the patient, regardless of the jurisdiction of the hospital. This is...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 52-Falls resulting in patient harm in residential aged care, 2012 QS

500117 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. This indicator provides a count of patients who experience a fall in an aged care facility and required admission to hospital as a result of the fall. It does not provide an indication of the falls which occur in aged care facilities that do not require hospitalisation. The Australian Government Dep...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 53-Older people receiving aged care services, 2012 QS

500114 | Data Quality Statement
The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) Ageing and Aged Care data warehouse is derived from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to service providers and has accurate data on the numbers of clients, their age and Indigenous status. Information about geographical location (remoteness) is based on location of service provider for all programs except Home and Community Care (HACC) and Veterans’ Home Care (VHC) (where remoteness is based on location of client). VH...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 54-Aged care assessments completed, 2012 QS

500112 | Data Quality Statement
This data collection is used for approval for clients to access Australian Government-funded aged care programs and coverage of clients is comprehensive. This indicator does not represent all assessment activity undertaken by Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACATs), only those completed. Note that completed assessments include both assessments where the delegate has and has not approved the client to receive aged care services.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 55-Younger people with disabilities using residential, CACP and EACH aged care services, 2012 QS

500109 | Data Quality Statement
The data used to produce this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to services providers and contain accurate data on client numbers and characteristics.
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 56-People aged 65 years or over receiving sub-acute services, 2012 QS

500107 | Data Quality Statement
The National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is a comprehensive data set that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. This indicator is a count of separations, not a count of persons. The same person may be hospitalised on more than one occasion during the year. Services other than admitted patient services are not included. There is some variation among jurisdictions in the assignment of care type categories. Varia...
Retired: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 61-Teenage birth rate, 2012 QS

500076 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The numerator includes births to mothers aged less than 15 years, however, the denominator only includes women aged 15 to 19 years. This may result in the rate being slightly overstated. The National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) includes information on the Indigenous status of the mother only. Since 2005, all jurisdictions have collected information on Indigenous status of the mother in accordance with the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). No formal national assessment has been un...
Retired: Health

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