Data Quality Team
The DQT provides a data quality function for:
- The Hospital Morbidity Data System housed in the Hospital Morbidity Data Collection (HMDC) which contains clinically coded data for inpatient episodes in Western Australia.
- The Mental Health Information Data Collection (MiND).
It also takes carriage of the private hospital data submission process by:
- Managing private hospital data submissions, data quality checks and data loading.
- Ensuring private hospital data meets data submission schedules and demonstrates good data quality.
- Monitors private hospital license holders and ensures they are notified about requirements for data submission, reporting and edit protocols.
- Regularly liaises with private hopsitals and vendors regarding the collection of inpatient data, validation and reporting.
How is data quality monitored by the DQT?
- Adherence to Admission, Readmission, Discharge and Transfer policy (ARDT), business rules, Australian Coding Standards, ACCD Coding rules and WA Coding rules.
- Embedded data quality validations are run against inpatient data based on local and national business rules to ensure data is checked against known rules.
- Ad hoc data mining, desktop audits, site audits, targeted audits, feedback from data queries and other audit processes.
Education, resources and guidelines
Contacts and forms
Email:
Websites:
All queries relating to data quality that are not covered above, please contact:
Tahlia Parry
Data Quality Team Leader
Phone: (08) 9222 4094
Email: Tahlia.Parry@health.wa.gov.au
Last reviewed: 04-05-2021