Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2012, KPI16-Percentage of all emergency department presentations who have physically left the emergency department within four hours, 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | Emergency department episodes presentations completed within 4 hours (percentage) |
| METEOR identifier: | 463151 |
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| Description: | The percentage of emergency department patients, who either physically leave the emergency department for admission to hospital, are referred for treatment or are discharged, whose total time in emergency department is within four hours of presentation. |
| Indicator set: | Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2012 |
| Outcome area: | Emergency Department access Tasmanian Health, Standard 07/12/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | The numerator and denominator
Presented as a percentage. |
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| Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
| Numerator: | Total number of patients whose length of stay in the emergency department is less than 4 hours (being a length of service episode of 4 hours or below, which allows for 4:00:59 seconds*). * This is in line with the national reporting standards. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| Denominator: | Total number of presentations to emergency departments |
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| Disaggregation: | Specified disaggregation: Hospital, triage category and reporting month based on the date of the end of the emergency department stay |
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Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | NN[N] |
Accountability attributes | |
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| Benchmark: | By 2015, 95 per cent of all emergency department patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department for whom it is clinically appropriate to either physically leave the emergency department for admission to hospital, be referred for treatment, or be discharged within four hours. |