Hospitalisation Statistics
Follow the links below to find statistics on hospitalisation.
Reviewed December 2011
61 Resources Found
| Title: | National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The NHCDC contains component costs per DRG based on patient-costed and cost-modelled information. The NHCDC enables DRG Cost Weights and average costs for DRGs for acute in-patients to be produced. |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Hospital Casemix Protocol (HCP) |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The HCP data set is a valuable source of information for the private health industry. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Australia's hospitals 2009-10 at a glance |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | Australia's hospital 2009-10 at a glance provides summary information on Australia's 1,320 public and private hospitals. |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Australian hospital statistics 2009-10 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | Australian hospital statistics 2009-10 presents a detailed overview of Australia's 1,326 public and private hospitals. |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Time trends and geographical variation in re-admissions for asthma in Australia |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | Hospital re-admission rates are an indicator of the quality of health-care provision and have important implications for policy makers and health care planners. |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Hospital separations due to injury and poisoning, Australia 2005-06 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) |
| Description: | This report uses data for hospital separations due to injury and poisoning that occurred in Australia during 2005–06 (1st July 2005 to 30th June 2006) to describe theoccurrence of hospitalised injury in Australia. It follows on from the previous in the series which examines hospitalised injury in Australia during 2004–05 (Bradley & Harrison 2008). Hospitalised injury is described according to major types of injury and poisoning and detailed analysis of the external causes of injury is undertaken. |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Chronic kidney disease hospitalisations in Australia 2000-01 to 2007-08 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) |
| Description: | In 2007-08, chronic kidney disease (CKD) contributed to 15% (nearly 1.2 million) of all hospitalisations in Australia, one million of which were for regular dialysis. Indigenous Australians were hospitalised at 11 times the rate of other Australians for regular dialysis, and at 5 times the rate for other principal and additional CKD diagnoses. |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Mortality and hospitalisation due to injury in the Aboriginal population of New South Wales |
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| Publisher: | NSW Department of Health |
| Description: | Injury and poisoning contribute a considerable proportion of deaths and hospitalisations of Aboriginal people in NSW each year. This report provides a detailed profile of counts, standardised rates and rate ratios of injury related hospitalisation and mortality among Aboriginal people in NSW. |
| Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Title: | Asthma among older people in Australia |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | Over 92% of the 402 asthma deaths in 2006 were among people aged 45 years and over. Asthma in older Australians is distinct in many ways. The presence of comorbid conditions makes the management of asthma in older people more complex. The disease itself is also more persistent and severe than in the younger ages. |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Australian hospital statistics 2008-09 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) |
| Description: | In 2008-09, there were 8.1 million separations from Australia's hospitals including: 4.5 million same-day acute separations; 3.3 million overnight acute separations; almost 300,000 non-acute separations. There were 7.2 million presentations to public hospital emergency departments, with 70% of patients seen within the recommended times for their triage categories. |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Serious injury due to transport accidents involving a railway train, Australia 2002-03 to 2006-07 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | This report presents national statistics on serious non-fatal injury due to transport accidents involving a railway train in Australia during the period from 2002-03 to 2006-07. Victoria and New South Wales accounted for over 71% of hospitalisations due to transport injury involving a train, while Victoria accounted for just over half of level-crossing hospitalisations during this period. |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Serious injury due to land transport accidents, Australia 2006-07 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | This report presents national statistics on serious non-fatal injury due to land transport accidents in Australia during 2006-07. Males were more than 2 times than females to be hospitalised as a result of a land transport accident, while just over 50% of those hospitalised were aged less than 30 years. |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Funding sources for admitted patients in Australian hospitals, 2005-06 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | This report provides information on sources of funding for the provision of care to admitted patients in Australian hospitals in 2005-06. The report compares funding for privately insured and public patients in public and private hospitals and, in particular, compares the Australian Government contributions for these patients. |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Breast cancer in Australia: an overview, 2009 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in Australian women with over 12,000 new cases diagnosed in 2006, and projections suggest that the number of new cases will continue to grow. A total of 2,618 women died from breast cancer in 2006, making it the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths for women. |
| Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Title: | Australian hospital statistics 2007-08 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | In 2007-08 there were: 7.9 million hospitalisations, 60% of these were in public acute hospitals; 566,000 admissions from public hospital elective surgery waiting lists with a median waiting time of 34 days; 7.1 million presentations to public hospital emergency departments, with 69% of patients seen within recommended times for their triage categories; and 1,314 public and private hospitals. |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | Drowning and other injuries related to aquatic activities at ages 55 years and older in Australia |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | About 100 people aged 55 years or older died annually by drowning each year in Australia over the period 1997 to 2005, equating to 28% of all drowning deaths at all ages. Males are more likely to die by drowning than females in all age categories over 55 years. |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Title: | Spinal cord injury, 1999-2005 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | During the six year period from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2005 19,912 hospital separations in Australia involved spinal cord injury. Almost half of all incident cases sustained an injury to the cervical spinal cord. |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Hospitalisations due to falls by older people, Australia 2005-06 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | The report focuses on hospitalised falls occurring in the financial year 2005-06 and examines trends in fall-related hospitalisations over the period 1999-2006. The number of fall events resulting in hospitalisation due to injury for older Australians remains high and the rate of fall-related injury incidents is particularly high for the oldest group within this population. |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Eye-related injuries in Australia |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | This report presents eye injuries from the perspectives of hospitalisations, general practice consultations, emergency department attendances, workers' compensation claims, and also as reported in national surveys. |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Hospital procedures for diseases of the digestive tract in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | Hospitalisation rates for diseases of the digestive system are lower among Indigenous peoples compared with other Australians. However, of those who are hospitalised with a disease of the digestive system, Indigenous people are less likely to have a procedure recorded than other Australians. |
| Date: | Dec 2008 |
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