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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2015

Indicator Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termProgress measure
Short name:Help on this termPI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2015
METEOR identifier:Help on this term588731
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
Description:Help on this termAttendances at public hospital emergency departments that could have potentially been avoided through the provision of appropriate non-hospital services in the community.
Indicator set:Help on this term

National Healthcare Agreement (2015)
Health, Superseded 08/07/2016

Outcome area:Help on this termPrimary and Community Health
Health, Standard 07/07/2010
Quality statement:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2015 QS Health, Superseded 08/07/2016

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

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:

  • 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.

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.

Computation:Help on this termNumerator only.
Numerator:Help on this termNumber of potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments.
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Hospital peer group

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—transport mode (arrival), code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—type of visit to emergency department, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—episode end status, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Disaggregation:Help on this term

Nationally by Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles (not reported this cycle).

2012–13 (updated for peer group), 2013–14—State and territory.

State and territory, by (all not reported this cycle):

  • 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.

Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Hospital peer group

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—Indigenous status, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NMDS / DSSHelp on this term

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2013-14

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Administrative by-product data
Used for disaggregation by state/territory, remoteness and SEIFA IRSD

Comments:Help on this term

Most recent data available for 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting: 2013–14.

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:Help on this termCount
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termEpisode
Format:Help on this termNN[NNNNN]

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termAccessibility

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

Frequency

Annual

Data custodian

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement
Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Further data development / collection required:Help on this termSpecification: Substantial work required, the measure requires significant work to be undertaken.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2014
  • Health, Superseded 14/01/2015
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2016
  • Health, Superseded 31/01/2017
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2015
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2015
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion completed within four hours, 2015
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
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