National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2012 |
METEOR identifier: | 436845 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
Description: | Length of time a person needs to wait to see a GP for an urgent appointment. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2012 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | 15 years |
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Computation description: | The interpretation of ‘urgent medical care’ was left to the respondent. Numerator refers to waiting time for most recent appointment with a GP in the last 12 months. Population is limited to persons aged 15 years and over. Rates directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage. |
Computation: | 100 × (numerator ÷ denominator) calculated separately for each waiting time category (within 4 hours; more than 4 hours but within 24 hours; and more than 24 hours). |
Numerator: | Number of persons who reported seeing a GP (for urgent medical care for their own health) within specified waiting time categories. |
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Denominator: | Total number of persons aged 15 years and over who reported seeing a GP for urgent medical care (for their own health) in the last 12 months. |
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Disaggregation: | 2010–11—State and territory, by waiting time category, by:
2010–11—Nationally, by waiting time category, by:
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for the 2012 CRC report: 2010–11 |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Long-term |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 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 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type 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 58-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2012 Health, Superseded 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 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 70-Accredited and filled clinical training positions, 2012 Health, Retired 25/06/2013 |