The Queensland Emergency Data Collection (EDC) is an administrative data collection that contains demographic, administrative and clinical data detailing presentations to Emergency Departments (ED) at most public hospitals in Queensland.

The EDC is based on the "Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care‟ National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). The collection contains information on patients' journey through the ED, describes the care and treatment provided and provides alerts.

The scope of this data collection currently covers the Emergency Departments of most Queensland public hospitals. Included are all patients who arrive, and are registered to receive care, at an ED at any of the Queensland ED Reporting Hospitals.

Emergency data is only available for reporting Queensland hospitals.

This dataset is linked routinely. The time lag for finalised linked data available for researchers is available here - Data collections available for linkage | Queensland Health.

Administrative. The purpose of the collection is to collect emergency department (ED) data to allow reporting to support service improvement, performance management and planning.

Queensland state data

Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 (Qld)

Private Health Facilities Act 1999 (Qld)

Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)