Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.2.1–Adverse events treated in hospitals, 2019
Indicator Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | AHPF PI 2.2.1–Adverse events treated in hospitals, 2019 |
METEOR identifier: | 716174 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 |
Description: | The number of hospitalisations involving an adverse event. Presented as a number per 100 hospitalisations. |
Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2019 Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 |
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Computation description: | Adverse events are defined as incidents in which harm resulted to a person receiving health care. They include infections, falls resulting in injuries, and problems with medication and medical devices. Some adverse events may be preventable. The current measure for this indicator can be interpreted as representing selected adverse events in health care that have resulted in, or have affected, hospital admissions, rather than all adverse events that occurred in hospitals. A hospital separation may be recorded against more than one adverse event category as some adverse events are reported as diagnoses and others as external causes or places of occurrence (of the injury or poisoning). Some of the adverse events may represent events that occurred before admission. Analysis by state and territory is based on location of the service. Presented as a number per 100 separations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Numerator: | Number of hospital separations with an adverse event, where an adverse event is defined as follows (using ICD-10-AM 10th edition):
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Denominator: | Total number of hospital separations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Disaggregation: | 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18—National. Nationally, by (all not reported):
State and territory (not reported). State and territory, by (all not reported):
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Comments: | Most recent data available for Australian Health Performance Framework: 2017–18. Data for 2007–08 to 2016–17 were obtained from Admitted patient care NMDSs for those years. Similar data elements were used to those listed above for the 2017–18 Admitted patient care NMDS. From 2017–18 the specificity of Place of occurrence: Health service area has improved in that adverse events in the current or another health service area are now separately identifiable. Separations with an adverse event in both the current and another health service area are now counted as two separations with adverse events, and consequently the number and rates of separations with Place of occurrence: Health service area may have increased for 2017–18 compared with previous years. The scope of the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is episodes of care for admitted patients in essentially all hospitals in Australia, including public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free-standing day hospital facilities, alcohol and drug treatment hospitals and dental hospitals. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Representation class: | Rate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data type: | Real | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unit of measure: | Episode | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format: | N[NN].N | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Framework and dimensions: | 2. Safety | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reporting requirements: | Australian Health Performance Framework | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.2.1–Adverse events treated in hospitals, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/10/2021 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.2.2–Healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections, 2019 Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 22–Healthcare associated infections: Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23–Unplanned hospital readmission rates, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23–Unplanned hospital readmission rates, 2021 Health!, Standard 19/11/2020 |