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How to measure ED performance?
State-level
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3. Across 177 emergency departments in NSW
In 2015–16 there were:
• 2.7 million emergency department
presentations
• 1.1 million ambulance responses
574,523 patients arrived at the emergency
department by ambulance
• 729,583 admissions to hospital from the
emergency department
4. Emergency departments in NSW
• 209,968 people (3% of the population) visited an ED
three or more times, accounting for 35% of all visits
• Most common presenting signs and symptoms:
1. Circulatory and respiratory system – 7%
2. Digestive system – 6%
3. General – 5%
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• Against a standard
• Over time
• Variation
State-level reporting
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Change in ED activity compared with same quarter, last year
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Time from presentation to start treatment, by triage category
January to March 2017
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Percentage of patients whose treatment started on time,
by triage category
January to March 2017
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Percentage of patients whose treatment started on time
January to March 2017
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Percentage of patients who spent four hours or less in
the ED, January to March quarters, NSW, 2012 to 2017
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Percentage of patients who spent four hours or less in
the ED, by mode of separation, Jan 2012 to Mar 2017
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Emergency Department Patient Survey
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Emergency Department Patient Survey – LHD variation
2014–15
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Emergency Department Patient Survey – LHD variation
2014–15
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Synthesis and overview
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Emergency Department Patient Survey
• 23,810 patients, visited between April 2015 and March 2016
• Included 82 hospitals
• Principal referral, major, district hospitals (peer group A – C) (5000 + patients pa)
• All local health districts
Emergency Department Small Facility Survey
• 7,043 patients visited between November 2015 and February 2016
• Included 64 smaller facilities
• Multipurpose services, health services, small district
• Six local health districts - inner- and outer- regional, remote and very remote areas
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Emergency departments – small and large
Small Facilities
ED patients 2016
ED patients 2015
Overall how would you rate the care you received while in the ED? (% very good)
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Experiences of care in the ED, by Aboriginality
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Emergency department transfer of care time, Jan–Mar 2017
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Percentage of ambulance arrivals with transfer of care
time within 30 minutes, Apr 2013 to Mar 2017
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Turnaround time
Median turnaround time, hospital perspective, January to March 2017
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Median turnaround time, local response area perspective, January to March 2017
Turnaround time
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Daily measures, NSW, January to March 2017
Surge level
Observed significantly above expected
Not significantly above expected
Activity
80th percentile of activity
90th percentile of activity
Under 80th percentile of activity
Timeliness
Days of highest performance
Days of lowest performance
Neither high or low performance
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Hospital-level reporting
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BHI website
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41. Parsimony and comprehensiveness
• Be clear about the:
• purpose of measurement
• presentation
• levels of analysis
• need for linkage