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Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017 ACC 1-2 - Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2017

Indicator Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termIndicator
Short name:Help on this termTriage 1 and all emergency department patients seen within national benchmarks (percentage)
METEOR identifier:Help on this term675844
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019
Description:Help on this term

This indicator measures the percentage of patients that are treated within the national recommended benchmark for waiting times for triage category 1 and all triage categories in public hospital emergency departments.

Indicator set:Help on this term

Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2017
Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019

Outcome area:Help on this termEmergency Department access
Tasmanian Health, Standard 07/12/2016

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

The definitions applied are consistent with the national definitions used for reporting against the National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform. The definitions include presentations that have been assigned a triage category between 1 and 5.  Presentations that are ‘did not wait’, ‘dead on arrival’ or the waiting time to service delivery is invalid are excluded for the purpose of calculating this indicator. See Australasian Triage Scale from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine for a description of each triage category, including indicative clinical descriptors.

Time to treatment is calculated by subtracting the date and time the patient presented to the emergency department from the date and time treatment commenced. The time to treatment is then compared to the recommended treatment time for the allocated initial triage category.

The indicator is calculated for triage category 1 and all triage categories and presented as a percentage.

Computation:Help on this term

100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Calculated separately for triage category 1 and all triage categories.

Numerator:Help on this term

Total number of presentations to emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for triage category 1:

  • Triage category 1: seen within seconds, calculated as less than 2 minutes (being a waiting time of 2 or below, which allows for 2:59 seconds*).

* This is in line with the national reporting standards.

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

Data ElementHelp on this term

Establishment—organisation identifier, (Tasmanian) identifier NNNN

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

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

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [TriageCategoryRefId] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Episode of care—episode identifier, N[NNNNNN]

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [EmergencyIdentifier] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Emergency department stay—physical departure date, DDMMYYYY

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureDateTime] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Emergency department stay—physical departure time, hhmm

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureDateTime] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Emergency department stay—waiting time (to commencement of clinical care), total minutes NNNNN

Guide for useHelp on this term

Calculated by subtracting date and time the patient presents at the emergency department from date and time of commencement of service event.  Although triage category 1 is measured in seconds, it is recognised that the data will not be collected with this precision.

Data is obtained from the [WaitDurationInMins] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

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

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureMethodRefId] field in Health Central and excludes records with the Episode end status indicate they departed to the following:

 

ValueMeaning
44 Did not wait to be seen by a healthcare professional
77 Dead on arrival and not treated

 

Denominator:Help on this term

Total number of triage category 1 and all triage categories presentations to emergency departments

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

Data ElementHelp on this term

Establishment—organisation identifier, (Tasmanian) identifier NNNN

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

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

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [TriageCategoryRefId] field in Health Central and includes records with the triage category 1 and all triage categories.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Episode of care—episode identifier, N[NNNNNN]

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [EmergencyIdentifier] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Emergency department stay—physical departure date, DDMMYYYY

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureDateTime] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Emergency department stay—physical departure time, hhmm

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureDateTime] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

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

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureMethodRefId] field in Health Central and excludes records with the Episode end status indicate they departed to the following:

 

ValueMeaning
44 Did not wait to be seen by a healthcare professional
77 Dead on arrival and not treated

 

Disaggregation:Help on this term
Specified disaggregation: Hospital, triage category and reporting month based on the date of the end of the emergency department stay
Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Establishment—organisation identifier, (Tasmanian) identifier NNNN

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

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

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Emergency department stay—physical departure date, DDMMYYYY

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureDateTime] field in Health Central.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Emergency department stay—physical departure time, hhmm

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data is obtained from the [DepartureDateTime] field in Health Central.

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termPercentage
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termPerson
Format:Help on this term

NN[N]

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this term
  • 2017-18 Service Agreement

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Service Agreement - Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania: 2016, ACC 1-2, Emergency Department , Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2016
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 28/03/2019
Has been superseded by Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, Emergency Department - Percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended triage time, 2018
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019
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