Admission to Hospital From Emergency Departments: Emergency Department Stay Length at the 90th Percentile
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The emergency department stay length at the 90th percentile (in hours and minutes) for all patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department (including publicly funded privately operated hospitals) who are subsequently admitted to the same hospital.
Numerator
Emergency department stay length at the 90th percentile for emergency department presentations that are admitted to hospital (either short stay unit, hospital-in-the-home or non-emergency department hospital ward). Calculated by subtracting the date and time patient presents from the emergency department physical departure date and time.
Denominator
This is a continuous variable measure. The target population is patients presenting to emergency department who are admitted to hospital (inferred).
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
National Emergency Access Target data. Data are consistent with data definitions in the Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2012–13.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Report on Government Services and on the AIHW website.