National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Output measure |
Short name:![]() | PI 24-GP-type services, 2012 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 441378 |
Registration status:![]() | Health, Retired 25/06/2013 |
Description:![]() | GP-type service use per 1,000 population. |
Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |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 24-GP-type services, 2012 QS Health, Retired 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description:![]() | Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item numbers used in this indicator are:
Rates directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. Medicare Benefits Scheme data presented by Indigenous status are adjusted for under-identification in the Medicare Australia Voluntary Indigenous Identifier (VII) database, Analysis by state and territory, remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on postcode of residence of the person as recorded in Medicare Australia's database at the date the last service was received in the reference period. Presented per 1,000 population |
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Computation:![]() | 1,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Medicare Benefits Scheme and Department of Veterans' Affairs data combined. |
Numerator:![]() | Number of non-referred (GP) attendances claimed through the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) or the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA). |
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Denominator:![]() | Population |
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Disaggregation:![]() | 2008–09 and 2009–10 (updated to include DVA data) and 2010–11—Nationally, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles 2008–09 and 2009–10 (updated to include DVA data), and 2010–11—State and territory, by:
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments:![]() | Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2010–11. MBS item numbers change over time. Extracted data may include historical item numbers that are no longer part of the current MBS but have been processed by Medicare Australia within the reference period. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Rate |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Person |
Format:![]() | NNNN.N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions:![]() | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data:![]() | Department of Health and Ageing / Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Further data development / collection required:![]() | Specification: Long-term |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 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 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to cost, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 22-Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations, 2012 Health, Superseded 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 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 |