National Healthcare Agreement: PB f–By 2014–15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006-07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions, 2020
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | PB f–By 2014–15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006–07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions, 2020 |
| METEOR identifier: | 716265 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 13/03/2020 |
| Description: | By 2014–15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006–07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions (Baseline specification). There are two parts to this performance benchmark:
For Part 1, the measure is under development. For Part 2, the measure is defined below. |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2020) Health, Standard 13/03/2020 |
| Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | For ICD-10-AM coding details, please refer to the specification for National Healthcare Agreement Performance Indicator 18–Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations, 2020. Analysis of state/territory is based on usual residence of the person. Presented as a number and a percentage. |
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| Computation: | Number 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
| Numerator: | Number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided into three groups and total:
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| Denominator: | Total hospital separations |
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| Disaggregation: | 2017–18—State and territory (by three groups and total) (not reported). Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2020 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2017–18. Baseline: 2006–07. The scope of the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is episodes of care for admitted patients in essentially all hospitals in Australia, including public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free-standing day hospital facilities, alcohol and drug treatment hospitals and dental hospitals. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Rate |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Episode |
| Format: | NN[NN].N |
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Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Benchmark: | National Healthcare Agreement Performance Benchmark: By 2014–15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6% over the 2006–07 baseline to 8.5% of total hospital admissions. |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Minor work required, the measure needs minor work to meet the intention of the indicator. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PB f–By 2014–15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006-07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PB f–By 2014–15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006-07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions, 2021 Health, Standard 16/09/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18–Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 |