National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2011
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Progress measure |
Short name:![]() | PI 14—Waiting times for GPs, 2011 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 402424 |
Registration status:![]() | Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 |
Description:![]() | Length of time a person needs to wait to see a GP for an urgent appointment |
Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2011) Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |
Outcome area:![]() | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2011 QS Health, Superseded 04/12/2012 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from:![]() | 15 years |
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Computation description:![]() | The interpretation of ‘urgent medical care’ was left to the respondent Numerator refers to waiting time for most recent appointment with a GP in the last 12 months. Population is limited to persons aged 15 years and over. Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Indicator of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage. |
Computation:![]() | 100 x (numerator ÷ denominator) calculated separately for each waiting time category (within 4 hours; more than 4 hours but within 24 hours; and more than 24 hours). |
Numerator:![]() | Number of persons who reported seeing a GP (for their own health) for urgent medical care within specified waiting time categories. |
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Denominator:![]() | Total number of persons aged 15 years and over who reported seeing a GP for urgent medical care (for their own health) in the last 12 months. |
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Disaggregation:![]() | 2009—State and territory, by waiting time category 2009—Nationally, by:
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Comments:![]() | Most recent data available for the 2011 CRC report: 2009 |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Percentage |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Person |
Format:![]() | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions:![]() | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement |
Further data development / collection required:![]() | Specification: Long-term |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation:![]() | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: P14-Waiting times for GP's, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB 05-By 2012–13, 80 per cent of emergency department presentations are seen within clinically recommended triage times as recommended by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 58-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 60-Access to services by type of service compared to need, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 70-Accredited and filled clinical training positions, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |