National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18-Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations, 2014

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Note that the codes below are ICD-10-AM 7th edition.

Table: ICD-10-AM codes used for identifying potentially preventable hospitalisations 

Rates directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.

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 per 100,000 population.

Number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided into three groups and total:

• vaccine-preventable conditions (e.g. tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella).
• acute conditions (e.g. ear, nose and throat infections, perforated/bleeding ulcer, pelvic inflammatory disease) (excluding dehydration and gastroenteritis).
• chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes (principal diagnoses only), asthma, angina, hypertension, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
• all potentially preventable hospitalisations.

2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 (resupplied for updated Estimated Resident Population (ERP)) and 2011–12—Nationally (by three groups and total) by:

• 2011 Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles.
• Sex.

2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 (revised), 2011–12—Nationally (by three groups and total), by:

• Indigenous status by remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) Remoteness Structure).

2007–09, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010-11 (resupplied for updated ERP) and 2011–12—State and territory (by three groups and total), by:

• remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure).
• 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintiles.

2011–12—State and territory (by three groups and total), by:

• Indigenous status.

Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.

Most recent data available for 2014 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report: 2011–12.

The scope of the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is episodes of care for admitted patients in essentially all hospitals in Australia, including public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free-standing day hospital facilities, alcohol and drug treatment hospitals and dental hospitals.

Potentially preventable hospitalisations are called ‘ambulatory care sensitive hospitalisations’ in some jurisdictions.

For 2011-12 data, the 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintile and decile data will be produced using the Australian Standard Geography Classification geographical unit of Statistical Local Area.  In future years, these data will be produced using the Australian Statistical Geography Standard geographical unit of Statistical Area 2.

Note that updated ERP by Indigenous status is not available for this cycle.  Data by Indigenous status is calculated using ERP determined prior to the final rebased ERP provided after the 2011 Census.  It is expected that final rebased ERP by Indigenous status will be available for the next cycle of reporting.

Note that the measure being provided this cycle is equivalent to measure 2 (supplementary measure (a)) from the previous cycle.

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National Healthcare Agreement: PB f-By 2014-15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006-07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions, 2014

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