Number of potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments.
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Definition
Attendances at public hospital emergency departments that could have potentially been avoided through the provision of appropriate non-hospital services in the community.
Indicator Summary
Potentially avoidable GP-type presentations are defined as presentations to public hospital emergency departments with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation (or for South Australia only, Type of visit can be Emergency presentation or Not reported) where the patient:
- was allocated a Triage category of 4 or 5 and
- did not arrive by ambulance or police or correctional vehicle and …
2008-09 and 2009-10—Nationally by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles
2008-09 and 2009-10—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness
- SEIFA IRSD quintiles
- peer group and triage category
Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.
Calculation rules
- Description
Potentially avoidable GP-type presentations are defined as presentations to public hospital emergency departments with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation (or for South Australia only, Type of visit can be Emergency presentation or Not reported) where the patient:
- was allocated a Triage category of 4 or 5 and
- did not arrive by ambulance or police or correctional vehicle and
- was not admitted to the hospital, not referred to another hospital, or did not die.
Limited to public hospitals in Peer Groups A and B.
Analysis by state and territory, remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.
Presented as a number.
Number of potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments.
2008-09 and 2009-10—Nationally by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles
2008-09 and 2009-10—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness
- SEIFA IRSD quintiles
- peer group and triage category
Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.
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