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Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, National Weighted Activity Units, 2018

Indicator Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termIndicator
Short name:Help on this termNWAU17 Admitted Patients Monthly Results (Number)
METEOR identifier:Help on this term698658
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019
Description:Help on this term

National Weighted Activity Units (NWAU), developed by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA), measures hospital activity using a common unit of activity, termed NWAU.

The activity unit for 2018-19 onward will be the NWAU.  The version of NWAU is 18 which denotes the financial period 2018-19.   This NWAU will be used to cost all ED activity and Outpatients activities and price Admitted Patient activity.

For the purpose of the NWAU measure, only the Admitted Patient activity of the following splits are counted.

  • Acute Admitted
  • Mental Health
  • Sub-acute/non-acute
Indicator set:Help on this term

Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018
Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

Sum of NWAU18 for Admitted Patients activity within the reporting period.  Refer to Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) website and document titled National Efficient Price (NEP) for calculation rules.

The indicator is presented as a number.

Computation:Help on this term

Sum of NWAU National Weighted Activity Units

Numerator:Help on this term

Number of NWAU

Denominator:Help on this term

No denominator

Disaggregation:Help on this term
Specified disaggregation: Hospital and reporting month
Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Establishment—organisation identifier, (Tasmanian) identifier NNNN

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCount
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termService event
Format:Help on this term

NNN[NNN].NN

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this term
  • 2018-19 Service Agreement

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, National Weighted Activity Units (NWAUs), 2019
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019
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