National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services: National Emergency Access Target
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) |
METEOR identifier: | 489630 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 21/11/2013 |
Description: | For all patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department (including publicly funded privately operated hospitals), the percentage of presentations where the time from presentation to physical departure, i.e. the length of the emergency department stay, is ≤ 4 hours, i.e. ≤ 240 minutes. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Data are provided as per the Non-admitted patient emergency department care (NAPEDC) NMDS 2012-13. The scope for calculation of the National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) is all hospitals reporting to the NAPEDC NMDS (Peer Groups A, B and other) as at August 2011 (when the National Health Reform Agreement—National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services was signed). For the duration of the agreement, hospitals that have not previously reported to the NAPEDC NMDS can come into scope, subject to agreement between the jurisdiction and the Commonwealth. Calculation includes all presentations with a physical departure date/time in the reporting period, including records where the presentation date/time is prior to the reporting period. Invalid records are excluded from the numerator and denominator. Invalid records are records for which:
Calculation includes presentations with any Type of visit to emergency department. Emergency department (ED) stay length is calculated by subtracting Time patient presents and Date patient presents from Emergency department physical departure time and Emergency department physical departure date respectively, as per the business rules included in the NAPEDC NMDS 2012-13:
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Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of emergency department presentations where ED stay length is ≤ 4 hours (i.e. ≤ 240 minutes). |
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Denominator: | Number of emergency department presentations |
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Disaggregation: | By state/territory and hospital |
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Comments: | Performance by states and territories will be measured against the schedule of improvement agreed in the National Health Reform Agreement—National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services Schedule C (National Emergency Access Target–Facilitation and Reward Funding), Table C5. Information about the volume of invalid records will be included in data quality statements. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | N[NN] |
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Reporting requirements: | National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Department of Health and Ageing |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | Standing Council on Federal Financial Relations. National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services, Schedule C. Standing Council on Federal Financial Relations, Canberra. Viewed 15 February 2013, |
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Related metadata references: | See also National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services: Admission to hospital from emergency departments Health!, Standard 15/06/2012 See also Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2012-13 Health!, Superseded 07/02/2013 |