Acute stroke clinical care standard indicators: 3a-Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke who have documented treatment in a stroke unit, 2019-
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Indicator 3a-Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke who have documented treatment in a stroke unit |
METEOR identifier: | 719052 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 |
Description: | Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke who have documented treatment in a stroke unit at any time during their hospital stay, in the reference Local Hospital Network (LHN) or other stroke network. |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Both the numerator and the denominator include patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke. For the numerator, a ‘stroke unit’ is defined as care provided in a hospital ward with the following minimum elements:
There are two types of stroke units that treat acute stroke patients:
Each model has a service provided in a discrete ward or dedicated beds within a larger ward, with a specialised multidisciplinary team with allocated staff for the care of patients with stroke. The numerator includes patients admitted to either type of stroke unit. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | Number of patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke who separated from hospital with documented evidence of treatment in a stroke unit at any time during their acute hospital stay. |
Denominator: | Number of patients with a final diagnosis of acute stroke who separated from hospital. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Episode |
Format: | N[NN] |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | National Stroke Foundation 2019. Acute stroke services framework. Melbourne: National Stroke Foundation |