National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2015
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2015 |
METEOR identifier: | 559042 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
Description: | Waiting time between being placed on a public dentistry waiting list and being seen by a dental professional. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2015) Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2015 QS Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Numerator refers to waiting time for most recent appointment with a government dental professional in the last 12 months. Population is limited to persons aged 15 years and over. Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage. 95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors are calculated for rates. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) calculated separately for two waiting time categories (less than one month, one month or more). |
Numerator: | Number of persons aged 15 years and over who reported being on a public dental waiting list who reported seeing a dental professional at a government dental clinic (for their own health) within specified waiting time categories. |
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Denominator: | Number of persons aged 15 years and over who reported being on a public dental waiting list (for their own health) in the last 12 months. |
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Disaggregation: | 2012–13 (resupplied for crude rate data), 2013–14—Nationally, by waiting time category, by:
2012–13 (resupplied for crude rate data), 2013–14—State and territory, by waiting time category. Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for the 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting: 2013–14 (total population: PEx); 2012–13 (Indigenous: AATSIHS). In the Patient Experience Survey of 2011/12, waiting times referred only to those who had seen a dental professional at a government dental clinic. These data were used for the 2013 reporting cycle. In 2012/13, the question was expanded to all those who had been put on a waiting list for a government dental clinic and these data are reported in the 2014 reporting cycle. Neither of these options include the possibility of using other services that have been outsourced by a government process. The ABS Patient Experience Survey is being used as an interim data source for this indicator, while a Public Dental Waiting Times NMDS is developed. The first data available from the new NMDS is expected to be in respect of the 2013-14 financial year. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Minor work required, the measure needs minor work to meet the intention of the indicator. Proxy measure. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13–Waiting times for public dentistry, 2016 Health, Superseded 31/01/2017 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |