Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | NWAU19 monthly results |
METEOR identifier: | 717933 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/07/2019 |
Description: | 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 2019-20 onward will be the NWAU. The version of NWAU is 19 which denotes the financial period 2019-20. This NWAU will be used to cost all emergency department, outpatients activities and price admitted patient activities. For the purpose of the NWAU measure, only the admitted patient activities of the following splits are counted.
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Indicator set: | Service Plan - Department of Health Tasmania: 2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/01/2020 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Sum of NWAU19 for emergency department, outpatients activities and price admitted patient activities 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 |
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Computation: | Sum of NWAU within the reporting period |
Numerator: | Number of NWAU |
Denominator: | No denominator |
Disaggregation: | Specified disaggregation: Hospital, hospital service activities and reporting month |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Count |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | NNN[NNN].NN |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Service Agreement - Department of Health Tasmania: 2018, National Weighted Activity Units, 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 24/07/2019 |