Project objectives
The project arose out of a review of emergency classifications for Australia, which concluded that the classifications that were used for funding emergency care in Australia – Urgency Related Groups (URG) and Urgency Disposition Groups (UDG) – were not suitable for ongoing use due to the reliance on triage (urgency) as a key classification variable. There was also a strong interest in moving to a classification with better markers of complexity and enhanced clinical utility using diagnoses.