National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2017
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, 2017 |
| METEOR identifier: | 630030 |
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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| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2017) Health, Superseded 30/01/2018 |
| 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, 2017 QS Health, Standard 31/01/2017 |
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:
The scope for calculation of this indicator is all hospitals reporting to the Non-admitted patient emergency department care (NAPEDC) National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) 2015–16. Analysis by state and territory, remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-economic 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. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| Disaggregation: | Nationally by SEIFA IRSD deciles (not reported this cycle). 2015–16—State and territory. State and territory, by (all not reported this cycle):
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2017 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2015–16. 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. Note that for the 2015 and previous reports the scope for the calculation of this indicator was limited to public hospitals in Peer groups A and B, using the peer group classification method as reported in Australian hospital statistics 2010–11, with the addition of emergency department activity at the Mersey Community Hospital. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Count |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Episode |
| Format: | NN[NNNNN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database Frequency Annual Data custodian Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12–Waiting times for GPs, 2017
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2016
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2018
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2017
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