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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 46-Rates of services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2012

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termOutput measure
Short name:Help on this termPI 46-Rates of Services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2012
METEOR identifier:Help on this term435875
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
Description:Help on this term

Number of hospital outpatient occasions of service per 1,000 population

Indicator set:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement (2012)
Health, Superseded 25/06/2013
Outcome area:Help on this termHospital and Related Care
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Health, Standard 07/07/2010
Quality statement:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement: PI 46-Rates of services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2012 QS Health, Retired 14/01/2015

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

Outpatient: A patient who does not undergo a hospital's formal admission process, excluding patients receiving services through emergency departments, community health settings, and other outreach.

Outpatient occasion of service: An interaction between one or more health care professionals with one or more non-admitted patients, for assessment, consultation and/or treatment intended to be unbroken in time. A service event means that a dated entry is made in the patient/client's medical record.

Outpatient care categories: allied health, dental, dialysis, drug and alcohol, endoscopy, mental health, other medical/surgical/obstetric.

Excludes public psychiatric hospitals.

Counts individual occasions of service only (excludes group outpatient occasions of service).

Crude rates of service (age of patient is not available).

Occasions of service for diagnostic imaging, pathology and pharmacy excluded as different counting methods apply to these categories, and methods vary by state and territory.

Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service.

Presented per 1,000 population.

Computation:Help on this term1,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)
Numerator:Help on this termNumber of outpatient occasions of service in hospitals
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (allied health services), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (dialysis), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (mental health), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (endoscopy and related procedures), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (alcohol and drug), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (other medical/surgical/diagnostic), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (dental), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Denominator:Help on this termTotal population
Denominator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data Element

Person—estimated resident population of Australia

Data Source

ABS Estimated resident population (total population)

Guide for use

Data source type: Census-based plus administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data Element

Person—estimated resident population of Australia

Data Source

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections (2001 Census-based)

Guide for use

Data source type: Census-based plus administrative by-product data

Disaggregation:Help on this term

2009–10—State and territory, by type of outpatient care (major categories and total)

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

Establishment—organisation identifier (state/territory), NNNNN

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data
First character of organisation identifier is the state/territory identifier

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (allied health services), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (dialysis), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (mental health), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (endoscopy and related procedures), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (alcohol and drug), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (other medical/surgical/diagnostic), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Establishment—number of individual session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (dental), total N[NNNNNN]

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

NMDS / DSS

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Comments:Help on this term

Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2009–10.

The scope of the National Public Hospital Establishment Database is public hospitals, including public acute hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, drug and alcohol hospitals and dental hospitals.

Representational attributes

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

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termAccessibility

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

ABS Estimated resident population (total population)

Frequency

Quarterly

Quality statement

ABS Estimated resident population (total population), QS

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

National Public Hospital Establishment Database (NPHED)

Frequency

Annual

Data custodian

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data Source

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections (2001 Census-based)

Frequency

Periodic

Quality statement

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections, QS

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

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
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, 2012
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Specialist services, 2012
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2012
  • Health, Superseded 25/06/2013
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 45-Rates of services: Overnight separations, 2012
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 46-Rates of services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2011
  • Health, Superseded 31/10/2011
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 47-Rates of services: Non-acute care separations, 2012
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 48-Rates of services: Hospital procedures, 2012
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 60-Access to services by type of service compared to need, 2012
  • Health, Retired 25/06/2013
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