Involvement in Decisions About Discharge From the Emergency Department
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Top box response: Percentage of patients who selected Yes, definitely to the question: Did you feel involved in decisions about your discharge from the Emergency Department?
Numerator
The number of survey respondents who selected Yes, definitely.
Denominator
The number of survey respondents who selected any of the response options.
Exclusions
Response: I didn't want or need to be involved.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Age, gender, education and language spoken at home.
Stratifications
Each hospital is defined as a stratum. Within each hospital, sampling and weighting were stratified into six strata, comprising of three age groups (0–17 years, 18–49 years and 50+ years) and two separation groups (admitted and non-admitted from the ED).
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
The Emergency Department Patient Survey is mailed out to patients who have recently attended a public NSW emergency department (ED) to provide feedback about their experiences of care. The sampling frame is based on data from NSW Health's Health Information Exchange (HIE) Emergency Department Data Collection (EDDC). A stratified sample design is applied, with each hospital defined as a stratum. Simple random sampling without replacement is applied within each stratum to create a final sample of patients who are mailed a survey. Targets of monthly sampling (sample size) for each facility are calculated based on data from the previous year. Selected patients were invited to complete the questionnaire by either returning the hard-copy questionnaire or by submitting an online response. Excluded: Patients who had died on arrival or died in the ED; not waited for treatment or left before treatment; been aged 18+ years in peer group A2 hospitals (Paediatric specialist hospitals); been aged 0–17 years in peer group A3 hospitals (Ungrouped acute – tertiary referral hospitals); a sensitive diagnosis or were likely to be visiting Emergency Department only for a COVID-19 test for their last Emergency Department visit in the sampling period.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
On Bureau of Health Information data portal.