National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Proportion of children with 4th year developmental health check, 2011 QS
Data Quality Statement Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Quality Statement |
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METEOR identifier: | 447985 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 04/12/2012 |
Data quality | |
Data quality statement summary: |
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Institutional environment: | The MBS claims data are an administrative by-product of Medicare Australia’s administration of the Medicare fee-for-service payment systems. Medicare Australia collects the MBS data under the Medicare Australia Act 1973. This data is then regularly provided to the Department of Health and Ageing. The indicator was calculated by the Department of Health and Ageing, using a denominator supplied by the AIHW. The Department of Health and Ageing drafted the initial data quality statement (including providing input about the methodology used to extract the data and any data anomalies) and then further comments were added by the AIHW, in consultation with the Department. The AIHW did not have the relevant datasets required to independently verify the data tables for this indicator. For further information see the AIHW website. |
Timeliness: | MBS claims data are available within 14 days of the end of a month. The indicator relates to all claims processed in the 2009 10 financial year. |
Accessibility: | Information is available for MBS Claims data from: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/mbsonline/publishing.nsf/content/medicare-benefits-schedule-mbs-1 |
Interpretability: | Medicare claims statistics are available at: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Medicare+Statistics-1 |
Relevance: | The measure relates to specific identified Medicare services for which claims data are available. Medicare data allows disaggregation by the demographics of the person and area (based on postcode) using data held on the Medicare system. The MBS items included in this indicator do not cover all developmental health check activity such as that conducted through State and Territory early childhood health assessments in preschools and community health centres. The figures for the Northern Territory exclude children receiving Northern Territory Emergency Response Child Health Checks. Data for total children was calculated using the total number of patients aged 3 to 5 at the time of service with MBS Items 701, 703, 705, 707, 708, 709, 711, 715 or 10986. |
Accuracy: | As with any administrative system a small degree of error may be present in the data captured. Financial-year data are based on the date on which a Medicare claim was processed by Medicare Australia, not when the service was rendered. The use of data based on when the claim was processed, rather than when the service was rendered, produces little difference in the total number of persons included in the numerator for the reference period. Medicare data presented for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Health Assessments have not been adjusted to account for known under-identification of Indigenous status in MBS data. Cells have been suppressed where rates are highly volatile (for example, the denominator is very small), or data quality is known to be of insufficient quality (for example, where Indigenous identification rates are low). |
Coherence: | The following changes to MBS items occurred on 1 May 2010, but are unlikely to impact time-series analysis. As of 1 May 2010, the Healthy Kids Check Item 709 has been replaced with four new MBS health assessment items (based on time and complexity) that cover all ages — Items 701 (brief), 703 (standard), 705 (long) and 707 (prolonged). Under these new reporting arrangements it is possible that health assessments for refugees and humanitarian entrants and for people with an intellectual disability (previously claimed under items 714, 718 or 719 and now claimed under the new MBS health assessment items) have been counted. This is likely to have little impact on the totals reported as the usage rates for these health assessments are low to extremely low for children aged 3–5 years. A Healthy Kids Check provided by a practice nurse or a registered Aboriginal health worker on behalf of a medical practitioner (previously item 711) has been retained under a new MBS item number – 10986. The change to the MBS item number does not impact time series analysis. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Insititute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: P13-Proportion of children with 4th year developmental health checks, 2010 QS Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Proportion of children with 4th year developmental health check, 2012 QS Health, Retired 14/01/2015 |
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