Time Spent - Doctors
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Thinking about all the doctors and specialists you have seen at a hospital emergency department in the last 12 months, how often did they spend enough time with you. Was it often, sometimes, rarely or never? Answer options: Always, often, sometimes, rarely, never.
Numerator
A subset of the denominator that represents patients aged 16 and older who responded to questions regarding amount of time spent with doctors within a emergency department setting.
Denominator
Patients aged 16 and older who responded to questions regarding amount of time spent with doctors within an emergency department setting.
Exclusions
Australian permanent defence force members and their dependants, non-Australian defence forces, residents of the Indigenous Community Strata, persons living in non-private dwellings such as hotels, university residences, boarding schools, hospitals, nursing homes, homes for people with disabilities, and prisons.