National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-People deferring access to GPs, medical specialists or prescribed medications due to cost, 2011
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Progress measure |
Short name:![]() | PI 16-People deferring access to GPs, medical specialists or prescribed medications due to cost, 2011 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 402433 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Superseded 30/10/2011 |
Description:![]() | Proportion of people who required treatment but deferred that treatment due to cost, by type of health service |
Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2011) Health!, Superseded 31/10/2011 |
Outcome area:![]() | Primary and Community Health Health!, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-People deferring access to GPs, medical specialists or prescribed medications due to cost, 2011 QS Health!, Superseded 04/12/2012 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from:![]() | 15 years |
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Computation description:![]() | Population is limited to persons aged 15 years and over. Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Indicator of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage. |
Computation:![]() | 100 x (numerator ÷ denominator) calculated separately for each type of treatment (GP, medical specialist, prescribed medication). |
Numerator:![]() | (a) Number of persons who reported delaying or not seeing a GP in the last 12 months because of cost. (b) Number of persons who reported delaying or not seeing a medical specialist in the last 12 months because of cost. (c) Number of persons who reported delaying or not getting a prescription filled for medication in the last 12 months because of cost. |
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Denominator:![]() | (a) Total Australian population aged 15 years and over. (b) Total number of persons aged 15 years and over who received a written referral to a specialist by a GP in the last 12 months. (c) Total number of persons aged 15 years and over who received a prescription for medication from a GP in the last 12 months. |
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Disaggregation:![]() | 2009—State and Territory, by type of treatment (GP, medical specialist, prescribed medication) 2009—Nationally by type of treatment (GP, medical specialist, prescribed medication), by:
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Comments:![]() | Referrals to medical specialists exclude referrals for pathology and imaging. Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2009 |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Percentage |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Person |
Format:![]() | N[NN.NN] |
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 Bureau of Statistics |
Further data development / collection required:![]() | Specification: Interim |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: P16-People deferring recommended treatment due to financial barriers, 2010 Health!, Superseded 08/06/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to cost, 2012 Health!, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 24-GP-type services, 2011 Health!, Superseded 30/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Specialist services, 2011 Health!, Superseded 30/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Dental services, 2011 Health!, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 58-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2011 Health!, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 60-Access to services by type of service compared to need, 2011 Health!, Superseded 31/10/2011 |