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Definition

By 2014–15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006–07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions (Baseline specification).

There are two parts to this performance benchmark:

  1. Improved provision of primary care
  2. Reduced potentially preventable primary care

For Part 1, the measure is under development. For Part 2, the measure is defined below.

Indicator Summary

Numerator

Number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided into three groups and total:

  • vaccine-preventable conditions (e.g. tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella)
  • potentially preventable acute conditions (e.g. ear, nose and throat infections, dehydration/gastroenteritis)
  • potentially preventable chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes, asthma, angina, hypertension, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
  • all potentially preventable hospitalisations
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Denominator
Total hospital separations
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Computation

Presented as a number and a percentage

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Disaggregation

State and territory (by categories and total)

Nationally by:

  • SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles

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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Calculation rules

Computation Rule
Description

Presented as a number and a percentage

Numerators

Number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided into three groups and total:

  • vaccine-preventable conditions (e.g. tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella)
  • potentially preventable acute conditions (e.g. ear, nose and throat infections, dehydration/gastroenteritis)
  • potentially preventable chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes, asthma, angina, hypertension, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
  • all potentially preventable hospitalisations
Denominators
Disaggregation

State and territory (by categories and total)

Nationally by:

  • SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles

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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