Improving the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data

Full publication

• Improving the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data (634KB PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (187KB PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and symbols
  • Summary
• Sections (445KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
     • Background
     • This report
  2. Assessments of the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data
     • Formal studies of the quality of Indigenous identification
     • Current health authority and AIHW assessments of the quality of Indigenous identification
     • The causes of poor Indigenous identification
  3. Current arrangements for ascertaining Indigenous status
     • Arrangements at public hospitals
     • Arrangements at private hospitals
     • Initiatives to improve data quality
  4. Analysis of Indigenous status information in national hospital separations data
     • Overview
     • Separations for which Indigenous status was not reported
     • The Indigenous subcategories
  5. Data analysis guidelines
     • Summary of the guidelines
     • Use of factors to adjust for under-identification of separations for Indigenous patients
     • Treatment of separations for which Indigenous status is unreported
     • Use of state and territory data
     • Use of private hospital data
     • Use of data for the Indigenous subcategories
     • Regional analysis of hospital separations data
     • Use of age standardisation and population data
  6. Recommendations for improving Indigenous identification in hospital
     separations data
• End matter (319KB PDF)
  • Appendix A: Detailed tables
  • Appendix B: Survey of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data
  • References