Transfer of Care – Patients Transferred From Ambulance to Emergency Department ≤ 30 Minutes
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of patients who arrived by ambulance for whom responsibility for their care was transferred from paramedics to Emergency Department staff in an Emergency Department treatment zone within 30 minutes.
Numerator
Number of patients who arrived by ambulance for whom responsibility for their care was transferred from paramedics to Emergency Department staff in an Emergency Department treatment zone within 30 minutes.
Denominator
Number of matched records with a valid transfer of care time.
Exclusions
Hospitals with fewer than 50 matched records in the quarter.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Transfer of Care Reporting System portal, which incorporates data drawn from the NSW Ambulance information system and from the Emergency Department Data Collection (EDDC) extracted from the centralised data warehouse, the Health Information Exchange. Transfer of care is reported for hospitals where the ambulance incident number and the date can be identified in both the NSW Ambulance data and the EDDC.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reported on Bureau of Health Information website: Healthcare Quarterly. This is a tier 1 KPI in the service agreements between the Ministry of Health and all local health districts and specialty health networks.
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
2022-23 Service Agreement www.health.nsw.gov.au/performance/pages/frameworks.aspx www.health.nsw.gov.au/Performance/Documents/service-indicators-measures.pdf Reported on www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/activity-and-performance-profile Healthcare Quarterly www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/BHIreports/healthcarequarterly/Jan-Mar2023
Technical Specifications
Bureau of Health Information. Technical Supplement to Healthcare Quarterly, January to March 2023. Sydney (NSW): BHI; 2023 www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdffile/0008/900278/BHIHQ53APR-JUN2023TECHSUPP.pdf page 18