National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2014
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2014 |
METEOR identifier: | 517646 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Description: | Attendances at public hospital emergency departments that could have potentially been avoided through the provision of appropriate non-hospital services in the community. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2014) Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2014 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Potentially avoidable general practitioner (GP)-type presentations are defined as presentations to public hospital emergency departments with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation where the patient:
Limited to public hospitals in Peer Groups A and B. To ensure comparability over time, emergency department activity at the Mersey Community Hospital is reported with Peer Group B hospitals for National Healthcare Agreement purposes. Whilst it is currently not a Peer Group A or B hospital, in the baseline year (2007-08) Mersey was a campus of the Peer Group B North West Regional Hospital and its emergency department activity was included in the baseline. Analysis by state and territory, remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a number. |
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Computation: | Numerator only. |
Numerator: | Number of potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments. |
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Disaggregation: | Nationally by Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles (not reported this cycle). 2011–12 (updated for peer group), 2012-13—State and territory. State and territory, by (all not reported this cycle):
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. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2014 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report: 2012–13. 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. Indicator specification under review by the NHISSC Emergency Data Development Working Group (EDDWG). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Count |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Episode |
Format: | NN[NNNNN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Benchmark: | 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. |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Substantial work required, the measure requires significant work to be undertaken. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion completed within four hours, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |