The Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) is an administrative data collection that contains de-identified, demographic, administrative and clinical data detailing presentations to Emergency Departments (ED) at public metropolitan hospitals in the ACT. EDIS is based on the "Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care‟ National Minimum Data Set (NMDS).
The ACT Emergency Department Data Collection provides information about patient presentations to the emergency departments of public hospitals in the ACT. Each record in the collection represents a presentation to an emergency department. Diagnoses are recorded by medical, nursing or clerical personnel at the point of care.
The other main source of primary care in Australia is general practice services. Because of variability in GP service availability, limited consultation hours and variation in bulk billing practices, ED activity may be very sensitive to availability of GP services. Emergency Departments have different visit types, the most common being an "Emergency Visit"
The primary purpose of collecting Emergency Department data in ACT is to:- Assist clinicians in the management of patients; and - Enable comparisons of performance in respect to access to services, quality clinical outcomes, patient management, customer satisfaction and cost effectiveness.
ACT state data
National Health Care and National Health Information Agreements
| Language | english |
| Format | csv |
| Coding | ICD-9; ICD-10; SNOMED CT |
