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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:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termIndicator
Short name:Help on this termPB 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:Help on this term428999
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 30/10/2011
Description:Help on this termBy 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:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement (2011)
Health, Superseded 31/10/2011
Outcome area:Help on this termHospital and Related Care
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Health, Standard 07/07/2010

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

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.

Computation:Help on this term

100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Calculated overall and separately for each triage category

Numerator:Help on this term

Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:

  • Triage category 1: seen within seconds, calculated as less than or equal to 2 minutes
  • Triage category 2: seen within 10 minutes
  • Triage category 3: seen within 30 minutes
  • Triage category 4: seen within 60 minutes
  • Triage category 5: seen within 120 minutes
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department, code N

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—waiting time (to service delivery), total minutes NNNNN

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Denominator:Help on this termTotal presentations to public hospital emergency departments
Denominator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department, code N

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Disaggregation:Help on this term

2008–09 and 2009–10— State and territory, by triage category, by:

  • peer group
  • Indigenous status
  • remoteness
  • SEIFA quintiles Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD)

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.

Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data Element

Hospital peer group

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—Indigenous status, code N

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—geographic location, code (ASGC 2007) NNNNN

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Used for disaggregation by remoteness and SEIFA IRSD

Data Element / Data Set

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N

Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSS

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2008-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Comments:Help on this term

Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2009–10

Baseline: 2007–08

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termPercentage
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termEpisode
Format:Help on this termN[N.NN]

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termAccessibility

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

Frequency

Annual

Data custodian

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement
Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Further data development / collection required:Help on this termSpecification: Interim

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
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
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
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 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2011
  • Health, Superseded 31/10/2011
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
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