National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-People deferring access to GPs, medical specialists or prescribed medications due to cost, 2011
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Progress measure |
| Short name: | PI 16-People deferring access to GPs, medical specialists or prescribed medications due to cost, 2011 |
| METEOR identifier: | 402433 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 |
| Description: | Proportion of people who required treatment but deferred that treatment due to cost, by type of health service |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2011) Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |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PI 16-People deferring access to GPs, medical specialists or prescribed medications due to cost, 2011 QS Health, Superseded 04/12/2012 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | 15 years |
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| Computation description: | 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 type of treatment (GP, medical specialist, prescribed medication). |
| Numerator: | (a) Number of persons who reported delaying or not seeing a GP in the last 12 months because of cost. (b) Number of persons who reported delaying or not seeing a medical specialist in the last 12 months because of cost. (c) Number of persons who reported delaying or not getting a prescription filled for medication in the last 12 months because of cost. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| Denominator: | (a) Total Australian population aged 15 years and over. (b) Total number of persons aged 15 years and over who received a written referral to a specialist by a GP in the last 12 months. (c) Total number of persons aged 15 years and over who received a prescription for medication from a GP in the last 12 months. |
| Denominator data elements: | |
| Disaggregation: | 2009—State and Territory, by type of treatment (GP, medical specialist, prescribed medication) 2009—Nationally by type of treatment (GP, medical specialist, prescribed medication), by:
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| Disaggregation data elements: | |
| Comments: | Referrals to medical specialists exclude referrals for pathology and imaging. Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2009 |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | N[NN.NN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Interim |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: P16-People deferring recommended treatment due to financial barriers, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to cost, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Specialist services, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Dental services, 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 |