National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2012

Collection and usage attributes

Potentially avoidable GP-type presentations are defined as presentations to public hospital emergency departments with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation (or for South Australia only, Type of visit can be Emergency presentation or Not reported) where the patient:

• was allocated a Triage category of 4 or 5 and
• did not arrive by ambulance or police or correctional vehicle and
• was not admitted to the hospital, not referred to another hospital, or did not die.

Limited to public hospitals in Peer Groups A and B.

Analysis by state and territory, remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.

Presented as a number.

2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—Nationally by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles

2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—State and territory, by:

• Indigenous status
• remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)
• SEIFA IRSD quintiles
• peer group and triage category

Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.

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.

Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2010–11.

This definition of ‘potentially avoidable GP-type presentation’ was used in the Booz Allen Hamilton study of emergency department care in NSW, and is considered to be a reasonable starting approximation of the population that should be receiving service in the primary care sector.

Representational attributes

Indicator conceptual framework

Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

National Healthcare Agreement performance benchmark and National Partnership on Taking Pressure Off Public Hospitals performance benchmark:

By 2012–13, 80 percent of emergency department presentations are seen within clinically recommended triage times as recommended by the Australian College of Emergency Medicine.

National Partnership on Taking Pressure Off Public Hospitals performance benchmark:

By 2013–14, 95 per cent of hospitals with an ED report to the non-admitted emergency care national minimum data set collection.

National Partnership Agreement on Taking Pressure Off Public Hospitals output measures:

Output: A nationally accepted definition of what a non emergency GP type presentation is based on emergency department DRGs by June 2012.

Joint Roles: D10 Commonwealth and States to develop a nationally consistent DRG based definition of a non emergency primary care presentation.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes