National Benchmarking Portal - HAC and AHR measures

The National Benchmarking Portal (NBP) is a website-based application that provides public access to insights from a combination Australian public hospital cost and activity data sets collected by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA).

Currently, the NBP has three measures - cost per NWAU, Hospital Acquired Complications (HAC) and Avoidable Hospital Readmissions (AHR). In this video we discover the HAC and AHR measures.

There are three dashboards each for HACs and AHRs which explore trends, activity and NWAU adjustments. You can use these dashboards to view visualisations for the current or previous year, or over time.

An ‘national weighted activity unit’, or ‘NWAU’ is a measure of health service activity expressed as a common unit, against which the national efficient price for public hospitals is paid. View the video on cost per NWAU measure here:    • National Benchmarking Portal - Cost p...  

Before data is uploaded to the NBP, all patient information is de-identified to ensure privacy.

It is important that users of the NBP familiarise themselves with the User Guide as it contains detailed instructions on the navigation of the dashboards and proper interpretation of the data. The User Guide is available on the portal and on the IHPA website.

Access the National Benchmarking Portal: http://benchmarking.ihacpa.gov.au/

www.ihacpa.gov.au