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 …
2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—Nationally by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles
2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)
- SEIFA IRSD quintiles
- peer group and triage category
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.
Disaggregation by peer group is limited to Peer Groups A and B, as this is the scope of the collection, and coverage varies for other hospitals by …
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.
2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—Nationally by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles
2009-10 (updated for peer group) and 2010–11—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)
- SEIFA IRSD quintiles
- peer group and triage category
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.
Disaggregation by peer group is limited to Peer Groups A and B, as this is the scope of the collection, and coverage varies for other hospitals by state and territory.
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