Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Repeat gastroscopy, 2018-19 |
METEOR identifier: | 726349 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 27/04/2021 |
Description: | Number of MBS-subsidised services for repeat gastroscopy per 100,000 people, all ages, age-sex standardised. |
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Population group age from: | All ages | ||||||
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Computation description: | Inclusion codes, description and additional requirements:
For a full description of the MBS code included for this indicator see the last MBS schedule for 2018-19. Presented as the following rates: (a) number of services per 100,000 people (b) number of people with a repeat gastroscopy per 100,000 people Rates are directly age-sex standardised, to the 2001 Australian population, using 5-year age groups: 0-4, 5-9, … , 80-84, 85 years and over. For more information about age-standardisation in general see glossary item Age-standardised rate. A patient’s age is calculated in years as the difference between the patient’s date of birth and date of service, as recorded in the MBS claim. A patient can be in two age groups if the patient had a repeat gastroscopy before the birthday, and a repeat gastroscopy after the birthday. In this example, one repat gastroscopy and half a patient are allocated to the two age groups. Date of birth and sex are as recorded on a patient’s last processed claim for any service in the processing period. Date of claim processing is up to 29 February 2020. Claim records are allocated to a financial year based on the date the service was provided to the patient. Analysis by Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) 2016 is based on the patient's Medicare enrolment postcode at date of service, as recorded in the MBS claim. Suppress data (number and rate) if at least one of the following conditions are met:
Age-sex standardised rates are also suppressed where the denominator for at least one of the age-sex groups used to calculate the rate is below 30 and results of sensitivity analysis indicate that the rates are volatile. However, for SA3 data, if the volatility of the rate is not found to have a material impact on its decile, the rate is published with caution. For more information about the sensitivity analysis, see the Technical supplement of the Fourth Atlas. Consequential suppression may be applied to preserve confidentialised data. | ||||||
Computation: | (a), (b) 100,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) | ||||||
Numerator: | (a) number of MBS-subsidised services for repeat gastroscopy (b) number of people who had a repeat gastroscopy | ||||||
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Denominator: | (a) (b) Total population as at 30 June 2018 | ||||||
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Disaggregation: | (a) SA3 2016 by: Primary Health Network (PHN) 2017 State and territory Australia by:
(b) State and territory | ||||||
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Representation class: | Rate | ||||||
Data type: | Integer | ||||||
Unit of measure: | Service event | ||||||
Format: | Unit of measure a) service event and b) people NN[NNNN] | ||||||
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Methodology: | Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3s) are geographic areas defined in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). The aim of SA3s is to create a standard framework for the analysis of ABS data at the regional level through clustering groups of SA2s that have similar regional characteristics. There are 340 spatial SA3s covering the whole of Australia without gaps or overlaps. They are designed to provide a regional breakdown of Australia. SA3s generally have a population of between 30,000 and 130,000 people. There are approximately 78 with fewer than 30,000 people and 46 with more than 130,000 as at 30 June 2016. The Other Territories of Jervis Bay, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island are each represented by a SA3 in the 2016 ASGS. For further information see the ABS publication, Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2016. ABS. cat. no. 3235.0. Further information on the MBS can be found at the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) | ||||||
Reporting requirements: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation 2021 | ||||||
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||||
Accountability: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | ||||||
Release date: | 28/04/2021 | ||||||
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |