National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2012 |
METEOR identifier: | 443689 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
Description: | Attendances at public hospital emergency departments that could have potentially been avoided through the provision of appropriate non-hospital services in the community. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2012 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Potentially avoidable GP-type presentations are defined as presentations to public hospital emergency departments with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation (or for South Australia only, Type of visit can be Emergency presentation or Not reported) where the patient:
Limited to public hospitals in Peer Groups A and B. Analysis by state and territory, remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a number. |
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Computation: | Numerator only. |
Numerator: | Number of potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments. |
Numerator data elements: | |
Disaggregation: | 2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—Nationally by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles 2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—State and territory, by:
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. Disaggregation by peer group is limited to Peer Groups A and B, as this is the scope of the collection, and coverage varies for other hospitals by state and territory. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2010–11. This definition of ‘potentially avoidable GP-type presentation’ was used in the Booz Allen Hamilton study of emergency department care in NSW, and is considered to be a reasonable starting approximation of the population that should be receiving service in the primary care sector. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Count |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Episode |
Format: | NN[NNNNN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
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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 and National Partnership on Taking Pressure Off Public Hospitals performance benchmark: By 2012–13, 80 percent of emergency department presentations are seen within clinically recommended triage times as recommended by the Australian College of Emergency Medicine. National Partnership on Taking Pressure Off Public Hospitals performance benchmark: By 2013–14, 95 per cent of hospitals with an ED report to the non-admitted emergency care national minimum data set collection. National Partnership Agreement on Taking Pressure Off Public Hospitals output measures: Output: A nationally accepted definition of what a non emergency GP type presentation is based on emergency department DRGs by June 2012. Joint Roles: D10 Commonwealth and States to develop a nationally consistent DRG based definition of a non emergency primary care presentation. |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Interim |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB 05-By 2012–13, 80 per cent of emergency department presentations are seen within clinically recommended triage times as recommended by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, 2012 Health, Retired 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2012 Health, Retired 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 35-Waiting times for emergency department care, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 36-Waiting times for admission following emergency department care, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |