Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2019
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | AHPF PI 2.5.6–Waiting time for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2019 |
METEOR identifier: | 724051 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 |
Description: | The median and 90th percentile length of time, in minutes, waited by patients to the commencement of clinical care, in public hospital emergency departments. |
Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2019 Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | See Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—triage category, code N for description of each triage category. The numerator and denominator include records with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation. Records are excluded from both the numerator and denominator if the episode end status is either 'Did not wait to be attended by a health care professional', or 'Dead on arrival', or 'Registered, advised of another health care service, and left the emergency department without being attended by a health care professional' or if the waiting time to service is invalid. 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) 2018–19 and NAPEDC National Best Endeavours Data Set (NBEDS) 2018–19. Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service. Analysis by remoteness is based on usual residence of person. Presented as number of minutes. |
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Computation: | Number of minutes to commencement of clinical care at 50th and 90th percentile. The 50th and 90th percentiles have been rounded to the nearest whole number of minutes. The calculation is where: n is the number of observations and p is the percentile value divided by 100, then n × p = i + f (where i is an integer and f is the fractional part of n × p). If n × p is an integer, the percentile value will correspond to the average of the values for the ith and (i+1)th observations. If n × p is not an integer, the percentile value will correspond to the value for the (i+1)th observation. |
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Disaggregation: | 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19—National. Nationally, by triage category (median only, not reported). Nationally, by triage category (median only, all not reported), by:
2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19—State and territory. Local Hospital Network, by triage category (not reported). Hospital, by triage category (not reported). Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2019 Australian Health Performance Framework reporting: 2018–19. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentile |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
Format: | [N]N:NN |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | 5. Accessibility |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | Australian Health Performance Framework |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | AIHW 2015. Australian hospital peer groups. Health services series no. 66. Cat. no. HSE 170. Canberra: AIHW. |
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.6–Waiting times for emergency department care: waiting times to commencement of clinical care, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/10/2021 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.5–Waiting times for emergency department care: proportion seen on time, 2019 Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.7–Waiting times for emergency department care: percentage of patients whose length of emergency department stay is 4 hours or less, 2019 Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.5.8–Waiting times for emergency department care: time spent in the emergency department, 2019 Health!, Standard 09/04/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2021 Health!, Standard 16/09/2020 |