National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services: Proportion of patients discharged from emergency department short stay units
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | Proportion of patients discharged from emergency department short stay units |
| METEOR identifier: | 545872 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 04/09/2014 |
| Description: | The percentage of patients provided with care in an emergency department short stay unit who are discharged from hospital on their physical departure from the unit. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | The numerator is calculated by counting the number of episodes of admitted patient care where the patient is discharged from the hospital when they physically depart from the emergency department short stay unit, using the patient’s Emergency department short stay unit departure destination and Mode of separation. Episodes of admitted patient care where the patient is assigned the following data values are excluded from the numerator calculation:
The denominator is calculated using the total number of episodes of admitted patient care where the patient is assigned an Emergency department short stay unit departure destination, which is a count of the total number of patients provided with care in an emergency department short stay unit. Where a patient has been assigned an Emergency department short stay unit departure destination of 'Other' in an episode of admitted patient care, their Mode of separation should be used to determine their departure destination from an emergency department short stay unit. Analysis is by state and territory and hospital, based on location of service. Presented as a percentage. |
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| Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
| Numerator: | The number of episodes of admitted patient care where the patient is discharged from the hospital when they physically depart from the emergency department short stay unit. |
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| Denominator: | The number of episodes of admitted patient care where the patient physically departs from an emergency department short stay unit. |
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| Disaggregation: | Disaggregation is by state/territory and hospital. |
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| Comments: | ‘Discharge’ refers to the formal separation of a patient, as defined in the National Health Data Dictionary. The scope of this indicator is all hospitals for which the National Emergency Access Target applies, that is, all hospitals reporting to the Non-admitted patient emergency department care (NAPEDC) NMDS (Peer Groups A, B and other) as at August 2011. The scope has been recommended by the Expert Panel's Review of Elective Surgery and Emergency Access Targets under the National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services (Recommendation 9) and agreed by the Council of Australian Governments in the National Health Reform Agreement - National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services (Clause 5). |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Episode |
| Format: | NN[N].N |
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Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee - Emergency Data Development Working Group |
| Reference documents: | Council of Australian Governments, 2011. Expert Panel Review of Elective Surgery and Emergency Access Targets under the National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services. Council of Australian Governments, Canberra. Viewed 7 February 2014, http://www.coag.gov.au/sites/default/files/Expert_Panel_Report%20D0490.pdf Standing Council on Federal Financial Relations, 2011. National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services. Standing Council on Federal Financial Relations, Canberra. Viewed 7 February 2014, http://www.federalfinancialrelations.gov.au/content/npa/health_reform/national-workforce-reform/national_partnership.pdf |