Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019, Emergency department percentage of triage 1 and all emergency department presentations seen within the recommended time - Triage 1 and all triage categories (all specified facilities), 2019
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | Triage 1 and all emergency department patients seen within national benchmarks (percentage) |
| METEOR identifier: | 717692 |
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| Description: | 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: | Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019 |
| Outcome area: | Emergency Department access Tasmanian Health, Standard 07/12/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | 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. |
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| Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Calculated separately for triage category 1 and all triage categories. |
| Numerator: | Total number of presentations to emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for triage category 1:
* This is in line with the national reporting standards. |
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| Denominator: | Total number of triage category 1 and all triage categories presentations to emergency departments |
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| Disaggregation: | Specified disaggregation: Hospital, triage category and reporting month based on the date of the end of the emergency department stay |
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Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | NN[N] |
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