National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2013
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, 2013 |
METEOR identifier: | 497262 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Description: | Length of time a person waits to see a dental professional at a public government dental clinic. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2013) Health!, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health!, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2013 QS Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
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. Excludes treatment for urgent dental care. Population is limited to persons aged 15 years and over. Rates directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic 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 each waiting time category (within 2 weeks; 2 weeks to less than 1 month; 1 month to less than 6 months; 6 months to less than 1 year; 1 year or more years). |
Numerator: | Number of persons aged 15 years and over who reported seeing a dental professional at a government dental clinic within specified waiting time categories (excluding for urgent dental care). |
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Denominator: | Total number of persons aged 15 years and over who reported seeing a dental professional at a government dental clinic in the last 12 months (excluding for urgent dental care). |
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Disaggregation: | 2011-12—Nationally, by waiting time category, by:
2011-12—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 2013 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report: 2011-12. In the Patient Experience Survey of 2011-12, waiting times refer only to those who had seen a dental professional at a government dental clinic. These data will be used for the 2013 reporting cycle. In 2012-13, the question is expanded to all those who had been put on a waiting list for a government dental clinic and will be reported in 2014. Neither of these options include the possibility of using other services that have been outsourced by a government process. Testing of questions to collect this information is about to be undertaken for the 2013-14 cycle of the Patient Experience Survey. 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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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 15-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2012 Health!, Superseded 25/06/2013 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 13-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2014 Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32-Patient satisfaction/experience, 2013 Health!, Superseded 30/04/2014 |