National Health Performance Authority, Healthy Communities: Specialist attendances, 2012–13
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Specialist attendances, 2012–13 |
METEOR identifier: | 547952 |
Registration status: | National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Description: | The average number of non-hospital specialist attendances per person in a year. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | All ages |
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Computation description: | Attendances included in this indicator are non-hospital specialist attendances. Specialist attendances are Medicare benefit funded referred patient/doctor encounters, such as visits, consultations and attendances (including video conferencing), involving medical practitioners who have been recognised as specialists or consultant physicians for Medicare benefits purposes. Specialist attendances comprise all items in Broad Type of Services Group 'C', as published in official MBS statistics by the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health. Rates directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. Total services (attendances/visits – source MBS claims data). In undertaking age standardisation of MBS data, the age of each person was determined from the last MBS service of any type, processed by the Department of Human Services in 2012–13. All MBS services for each individual processed in 2012–13, were attributed to the age in question. For MBS data, Medicare Local and SA3 were determined having regard to the enrolment postcode for each person from the last MBS service of any type, processed by the Department of Human Services in 2012–13. All MBS services for each individual processed in 2012–13, were attributed to the postcode in question. MBS postcode level data were allocated to Medicare Local and SA3 regions using concordance files provided by ABS. Numerator based on Medicare (MBS) data provided by Department of Health for the financial year of processing, 2012–13. Denominator – Estimated Resident Population at 30 June 2012 provided by ABS. Data elements used in computing the numerator were MBS item number, age of patient (based on age derived from the last MBS service processed for each individual in 2011–12) and patient enrolment postcode (based on the enrolment postcode from the last MBS service processed for each individual in 2011–12). Presented per person. Before MBS data are published by NHPA all confidential data cells are suppressed. The current definition of confidential data is as follows:
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Computation: | Numerator ÷ Denominator specialist attendances Specialist attendances, age-standardised Specialist attendances variations within Medicare Locals Specialist attendances variations within Medicare Locals, age-standardised |
Numerator: | Number of specialist attendances (non-hospital) claimed through the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) |
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Denominator: | Total estimated resident population (ERP) |
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Disaggregation: | By Medicare Local catchments, Medicare Local peer groups and Statistical Area 3 (SA3) |
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Comments: | Statistics for non-hospital specialist attendances are published as generally the MBS covers all services outside hospital, except services to DVA beneficiaries and some compensation cases. For inpatient and approved day hospital services, the MBS system only captures services to private patients. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Mean (average) |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NNNN.N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | PAF-Equity of access |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Health Performance Agreement-Performance and Accountability Framework |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | For MBS data Department of Health For ERP data Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Accountability: | National Health Performance Authority |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Health Performance Authority |
Reference documents: | National Health Performance Agreement-Performance and Accountability Framework |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Health Performance Authority, Healthy Communities: Specialist attendances, 2011–12 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Superseded 27/03/2014 Has been superseded by National Health Performance Authority, Healthy Communities: Specialist attendances, 2013–14 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |