Emergency Department Length of Stay
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Hospital Care
Country
Australia
Publishing Organisation
Victorian Agency for Health Information (VAHI): Victorian Health Services Performance
Type of Quality Indicator
Process
IOM Quality Dimension
Timeliness
Domain
Emergency Care
Defining Attributes
Definition
The number and percentage of patients treated in an emergency department and whose length of stay was less than 4 hours, equal to 4 hours or longer than 24 hours, and the number of non-admitted patients whose length of stay was less than 4 hours.
Numerator
Denominator
Exclusions
Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED) presentations have been excluded from the calculation of all emergency indicators.
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
By hospital and reporting period (quarterly).
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Administrative data
Data Collection Methods
Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD)
Frequency of Data Collection
Quarterly
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
91
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Quarterly
Reporting Frequency in Days
91
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Yes
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
02 December 2025
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Date Modified 02 December 2025