Data dictionary - Avoidable emergency presentations - Health and wellbeing - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Attributes

Outcome area	Health and wellbeing
Priority	Prevention and early intervention
Measure	Number of people with disability with GP-type emergency department presentations.
Most recent data	2018
Baseline data	2018
Population	People with disability of all ages living in households, who have been to a hospital emergency department for their own health in the last 12 months.
Numerator	Number of people with disability who felt a GP could have provided care for most recent time they went to an emergency department.
Computation description	Number of people with disability who felt a GP could have provided care for most recent time they went to an emergency department.
Computation	Sum of people with disability who answered that care could have been provided by a GP.
Notes	Data currently reported for this measure are based on subjective assessment of the person with disability, not that of a medical professional. Excludes people who did not know if a GP could have provided care for the most recent time they went to an emergency department.

Source Name	Australian Bureau of Statistics – Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC)

Measure	Avoidable emergency presentations