Percentage of People Who Did Not Claim a General Practitioner Attendance
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The percentage of people who did not claim a general practitioner attendance. A claim is classified as a GP attendance if the service is in any of the following Broad Type of Service groups: non-referred attendances – GP/VRGP (A/101), non-referred attendances – Enhanced Primary Care (M/102), non-referred attendances – Other (B/103).
Numerator
The number of people who did not claim a GP attendance was derived by subtracting the number of patients who claimed at least one GP attendance in 2016–17 from the ABS ERP (30 June 2016) for the patient region in question. Unique GP patients were identified through the Patient Identification Numbers (PINs) in the Medicare claim records.
Denominator
Estimated Resident Population (ERP) as at 30 June 2016.
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
By Primary Health Network (PHN) and Statistical Areas Level 3 (SA3s).
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Estimated Resident Population (ERP).