National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2011
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2011 |
METEOR identifier: | 421621 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |
Description: | Percentage of patients who are treated within national benchmarks for waiting times for each triage category in public hospital emergency departments |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2011) Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |
Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care Health, Standard 07/07/2010 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35: Waiting times for Emergency department care, 2011 QS Health, Superseded 04/12/2012 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | See National Triage Scale from the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine for description of each triage category, including indicative clinical descriptors. The numerator and denominator include records with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation, or Not reported for South Australia. Records are excluded from both the numerator and denominator if the episode end status is either Did not wait or Dead on arrival, or if the waiting time to service is invalid. Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service. Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Calculated overall and separately for each triage category. |
Numerator: | Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:
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Denominator: | Total presentations to public hospital emergency departments |
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Disaggregation: | 2008-09 and 2009-10—Nationally, by Triage category, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles 2008-09 and 2009-10—State and territory, by Triage category, by:
Dissagregation by peer group is limited to Peer Groups A and B, as this is the scope of the collection, and coverage varies for other hospitals by state and territory. Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.
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Disaggregation data elements: | |
Comments: | Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2008–09 and 2009-10 |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN[N] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Benchmark: | 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 Australian College of Emergency Medicine |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Interim |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: P35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 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 14-Waiting times for GPs, 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 36-Waiting times for admission following emergency department care, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 46-Rates of services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |