National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2015
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, 2015 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 588731 |
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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 (2015) |
Outcome area:![]() | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Quality statement:![]() | National 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Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2015 QS Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |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:![]() | 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). 2012–13 (updated for peer group), 2013–14—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 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:![]() | 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 |
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, 2014
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2016
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2015
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2015
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