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released: 28 Jun 2002 author: AIHW media release

Australian Hospital Statistics 2000-01 presents detailed information on the characteristics and hospital care of the six million people admitted to public and private hospitals, including their age, sex, diagnoses and the procedures they underwent. For the first time, waiting times for patients admitted for elective surgery in public hospitals are presented in this report. Detailed information is presented by the specialty of the surgeon who was to perform the elective surgery and for selected procedures for which patients were waiting. Information on Australia's hospitals includes the number of hospitals and hospital beds, and key statistics on the resources, expenditure and revenue of public hospitals and on the services they provide. Data on a range of hospital performance indicators are also reported using the National Health Performance Committee's framework.

ISSN 1036 613 X; ISBN 978 1 74024 193 9; Cat. no. HSE 20; 308pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Notes and corrections

  1. 030116
    • Tables 2.1, 2.2 and 2.6 - updated to include new private hospital data
    • Tables 2.4 - updated to include new 2000-01 cost weights.
    • Tables 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 - updated to include new 2000-01 cost weights
    • Tables 4.5 - updated to include new private hospital data
    • Table 6.3 and 6.9 - updated to include new 2000-01 cost weights
    • Tables S10 - Data have been revised
    • Tables 11.1, 11.2, 11.5, 11.6 and 11.8 - updated to include new 2000-01 cost weights
    • Appendix 5 - The list of hospitals contributing to the report has been updated.
    • Table A5.7h - was incorrectly referred to as Table A5.3 in Appendix 5 of the publication.
    • Tables A5.7a to A5.7h - provide information on the differences between private hospitals reporting to the National Hospital Morbidity Database and the Private Health Establishments Collection for the years 1993-94 to 2000-01. Included in the Excel attachment are tables A5.2 and A5.3, which were not included in the paper version as per page 268 of the publication.
    • Table S8.1 - Fixed due to an incorrect link in the original table
    • Table S8.2 - Fixed due to an incorrect link in the original table
    • Table S9.1 - Labels for ICD-10-AM blocks have been corrected
    • Table S9.2 - Labels for ICD-10-AM blocks have been corrected
    • Table S11.1 - Updated to include new 2000-01 cost weights
    • Table S11.2 - Updated to include new 2000-01 cost weights
    • Tables 11.3 to 11.17 - previously unpublished
  2. 031117
    • Table 3.1: - Victorian total should be 12,232 not 12,231, also changing the Australian total by one
    • Table 3.2: - Fixed due to an incorrect link in the original table
  3. 030625
    • Tables 2.1, 2.2 and 2.6 - updated to include new private hospital data and amended Western Australian Data for Table 3.1, 3.2 - updated to include amended Western Australian data for available beds.
    • Table 3.6 - updated to include amended New South Wales data for revenue.
    • Tables 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 - updated to include new 2000-01 cost weights, amended Western Australian beds data and amended separations data for the Australian Capital Territory.
    • Table 4.5 - updated to include new private hospital data and amended Wester Australian data for available beds.

Recommended citation

AIHW 2002. Australian hospital statistics 2000-01. Health Services Series no. 19. Cat. no. HSE 20. Canberra: AIHW.