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A comparison between Urgency Related Groups and the Australian Emergency Care Classification
From 2013–14 to 2017–18, average emergency department presentation increased by 2.7 per cent per annum, which surpassed the average growth of
the population over the same period.
In 2013, IHPA commissioned an investigative review to determine whether emergency care classified according to the Urgency Related Groups (URG) and Urgency Disposition Groups (UDG) system accurately accounted for patient complexity and cost variation.
This article presents the findings of the review, and how the Australian Emergency Care Classification addresses the limitations of the URG and UDG in relation to cleaning meaning, restricted capacity for classification refinements, and the structural differences between the respective classifications.
This article was published in the Health Information Management Association Australia HIM-Intercharge - Volume 10, 2020.
14 Dec 2021
Average cost per weighted separation
This article explains the average cost per
weighted separation indicator and presents the results for this indicator across the jurisdictions in National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Round 22, which uses 2017–18 financial year data.
Learn more about weighted separations used in the NHCDC, what the indicator ‘average cost per weighted separation’ measures, and what do the findings over the past five years show.
14 Dec 2021
The NHCDC and price weight adjustments
Learn more about price weight adjustments, how they are applied in the National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC), including data relating to the remoteness adjustment, Indigenous adjustment and paediatric adjustment is by jurisdiction.
Data collected via the NHCDC Round 22 (2017–18 financial year data) informs the National Efficient Price Determination 2020–21
14 Dec 2021
