National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion of patients whose length of emergency department stay is less than or equal to four hours, 2018
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 21b–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion of patients whose length of emergency department stay is less than or equal to four hours, 2018 |
METEOR identifier: | 658489 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 19/06/2019 |
Description: | For all patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department (including publicly funded emergency departments), the percentage of presentations where the time from presentation to physical departure, i.e. the length of the Emergency department stay, is within four hours. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2018) Health!, Superseded 16/06/2019 |
Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Health!, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b-Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion of patients whose length of emergency department stay is less than or equal to four hours, 2018 QS Health!, Standard 30/01/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | The scope for calculation of this indicator is all hospitals reporting to the Non-admitted patient emergency department care (NAPEDC) National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) 2016–17. 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. Recording departure time Emergency department (ED) stay length is the amount of time, measured in minutes, between when a patient presents at an emergency department, and when the patient physically departs the emergency department. It is calculated as per the guidelines included in the NAPEDC NMDS 2016–17:
Presentation time and date are the time and date of the first recorded contact with an emergency department staff member. The first recorded contact can be the commencement of the clerical registration or triage process, whichever happens first. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of emergency department presentations where emergency department stay length is less than or equal to four hours. |
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Denominator: | Number of emergency department presentations. |
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Disaggregation: | 2016–17—State and territory. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2018 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2016–17. 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: | Person |
Format: | NN[N] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility Effectiveness |
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Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion of patients whose length of emergency department stay is less than or equal to four hours, 2017 Health!, Superseded 30/01/2018 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21b–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion of patients whose length of emergency department stay is less than or equal to four hours, 2019 Health!, Superseded 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19–Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2018 Health!, Superseded 19/06/2019 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2018 Health!, Superseded 19/06/2019 |