Performance benchmark (f) Better health services: 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 Key amendments Following advice from the CRC that it will only report against the from previous cycle of supplementary measure (a) that is, with diabetes as principal diagnoses – reporting: included the previous main measure and supplementary measure (b) – have been removed from the specification. This is due in part to the main measure not enable time series comparisons to be made. The measure below now refers to what was previously supplementary measure (a). Outcome: Australians receive appropriate high quality and affordable hospital and hospital related care Interim measure: There are two parts to this performance benchmark: (1) Improved provision of primary care (2) Reduced potentially preventable hospital admissions For part (1) the measure is under development For part (2), the measure is defined as: numerator number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided — into the following three categories and total: vaccine-preventable conditions acute conditions, excluding dehydration and gastroenteritis chronic conditions excluding diabetes complications (additional diagnoses only) all potentially preventable hospitalisations, excluding diabetes complications (additional diagnoses only) and dehydration and gastroenteritis denominator total hospital separations — and is expressed as a number and per cent [The Steering Committee has a list of in-scope ICD-10-AM codes for each measure] Related performance Performance indicator 18: Selected potentially preventable indicator/s: hospitalisations Data source: Numerator and denominator National Hospital Morbidity Database — (NHMD). Data are collected annually Data provider: AIHW Data availability: 2011-12 Baseline: 2006-07 Cross tabulations State and Territory (by three groups and total) provided:
Performance benchmark (f) — Better health services: 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 Key amendments from previous cycle of reporting: Following advice from the CRC that it will only report against the supplementary measure (a) – that is, with diabetes as principal diagnoses included – the previous main measure and supplementary measure (b) have been removed from the specification. This is due in part to the main measure not enable time series comparisons to be made. The measure below now refers to what was previously supplementary measure (a). Outcome: Australians receive appropriate high quality and affordable hospital and hospital related care Interim measure: There are two parts to this performance benchmark: (1) Improved provision of primary care (2) Reduced potentially preventable hospital admissions For part (1) the measure is under development For part (2), the measure is defined as: numerator — number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided into the following three categories and total: vaccine-preventable conditions acute conditions, excluding dehydration and gastroenteritis chronic conditions excluding diabetes complications (additional diagnoses only) all potentially preventable hospitalisations, excluding diabetes complications (additional diagnoses only) and dehydration and gastroenteritis denominator — total hospital separations and is expressed as a number and per cent [The Steering Committee has a list of in-scope ICD-10-AM codes for each measure] Related performance indicator/s: Performance indicator 18: Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations Data source: Numerator and denominator — National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD). Data are collected annually Data provider: AIHW Data availability: 2011-12 Baseline: 2006-07 Cross tabulations provided: State and Territory (by three groups and total)
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