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
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | 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 |
| METEOR identifier: | 428999 |
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| Description: | By 2012–13, 80 per cent of emergency department presentation are seen within clinically recommended triage times as recommended by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2011) Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |
| Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
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. Disaggregation by state and territory based on hospital location. 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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| Numerator data elements: | |
| Denominator: | Total presentations to public hospital emergency departments |
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| Disaggregation: | 2008–09 and 2009–10— State and territory, by triage category, by:
Disaggregation 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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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2009–10 Baseline: 2007–08 |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Episode |
| Format: | N[N.NN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database Frequency Annual Data custodian Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Interim |
Source and reference attributes | |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by 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, 2012
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2011
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2011
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2011
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2011
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 36-Waiting times for admission following emergency department care, 2011
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 46-Rates of services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2011
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