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released: 11 Dec 2002

This publication provides information for the 1999-2000 financial year about the diagnoses of people identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in public and private hospital morbidity collections, and the procedures performed on them in hospital. Comparisons undertaken between Indigenous and non-Indigenous rates are based on population estimates for the same period.

ISBN 978 0 642 47841 2; Cat. no. IHW 9; 80pp.; $28.00

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Hospital Statistics

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians 1999-2000

Full publication (343K PDF)

  • Preliminary material (91K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables and graphs
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (57K PDF)
    2. Methods and data quality (67K PDF)
      • Hospital separations data
        • Classification of diagnoses and procedures
        • Identifying Indigenous patients in hospital separation records
        • Missing data
      • Population estimates
      • Rates of hospitalisation
        • Effects of data inadequacies on rate calculations
    3. Overview of hospital utilisation (76K PDF)
      • Hospital separations
        • Hospital sector
        • Age-specific hospital separation rates
        • Separations by State and Territory of usual residence
        • Same day separations
        • Average length of stay
        • Mode of separation
        • Indigenous identification
      • procedures
        • Hospital sector
    4. Principal diagnoses (133K PDF)
      • Principal diagnoses
        • Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
        • Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium
        • Respiratory diseases
        • Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
        • Digestive diseases
        • Mental and behavioural disorders
        • Genitourinary system diseases
        • Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
        • Infectious and parasitic diseases
        • Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissues
        • Nervous system diseases
        • Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disorders
      • Principal diagnosis by State and Territory of usual residence
    5. Procedures (130K PDF)
      • Procedures
        • Age-specific rates for procedures
        • Procedures recorded by principal diagnosis
      • Types of procedures
        • Procedures performed on a same day basis
        • Operations on the urinary system
        • Allied health interventions
        • Obstetric procedures
        • Miscellaneous procedures
        • Operations on the musculoskeletal system
        • Dermatological and plastic procedures
        • Operations on the digestive system
        • Imaging services
      • Procedures by State and Territory
    6. Discussion (36K PDF)
  • End matter (92K PDF)
    • Appendix A: ICD-10-AM codes groupings used in this publication
    • Appendix B: The introduction of ICD-10-AM
    • Appendix C: Jurisdictional assessments of the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separation records
    • Appendix D: National Health Data Dictionary - Indigenous status data element
    • Appendix E: List of references
    • Abbreviations and Symbols

Recommended citation

ABS & AIHW 2002. Hospital statistics: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians 1999-2000 (ABS): Occasional Paper. Cat. no. IHW 9. Canberra: AIHW.