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released: 31 May 2007 media release

Australian Hospital Statistics 2005-06 provides a thirteenth year in the AIHW's comprehensive annual reporting of statistics on Australia's hospitals. Detailed information is presented on hospital care and hospitals in 2005-06, as are summaries of changes over time and comparisons between public and private hospitals. Included are statistics on admissions to public and private hospitals in 2005-06, covering the age and sex of patients diagnoses, procedures, lengths of stay and waiting times for elective surgery. The publication presents statistics on emergency department presentations to selected public hospitals in 2005-06 covering the age and sex of patients, triage categories, waiting times and duration of care. Also included are statistics on outpatient clinic activity in selected public hospitals in 2005-06. The statistics presented on hospitals include hospital expenditure, revenue and bed numbers, and a range of hospital performance indicators reported using the National Health Performance Framework. This report is a useful resource for health planners, administrators and researchers with an interest in the Australian hospital system.

ISSN 1036-613X; ISBN 978 1 74024 690 3; Cat. no. HSE 50; 394pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (475K PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Hospitals at a glance
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (356K PDF)
    2. Overview of Australian hospitals (427K PDF and 172K XLS tables and figures) 1
    3. Public hospital establishments (402K PDF and 109K XLS tables and figures)
    4. Hospital performance indicators (573K PDF and 271K XLS tables and figures) 1
    5. Non-admitted patient emergency department care (518K PDF and 209K XLS tables and figures)
    6. Waiting times for elective surgery (421K PDF and 165K XLS tables and figures)
    7. Administrative data for admitted patients (485K PDF and 284K XLS tables and figures)
    8. Demographic profile for admitted patients (437K PDF and 261K XLS tables and figures)
    9. Principal diagnoses for admitted patients (515K PDF and 437K XLS tables and figures)
    10. Procedures for admitted patients (516K PDF and 370K XLS tables and figures)
    11. External causes for admitted patients (414K PDF and 103K XLS tables and figures)
    12. Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups for admitted patients (516K PDF and 346K XLS tables and figures)
  • End matter (734K PDF)

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above. Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. Chapter 6 tables have been updated following corrections to the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Database.
  2. Chapter 12 Supplementary tables provide additional state and territory tables by Diagnosis related groups in AR-DRG version 5.0. Tables 2.3 and 2.4 have been revised to correct the figures for 'Average private cost weight of separations' and 'Average public cost weights of separations' for private hospitals in both tables. Table 4.13 has been revised to correct the figures presented for 'Adverse event separations per 100 separations'.
  3. Supplementary tables provided for Chapter 9 and 10. (3 December 2009)

Recommended citation

AIHW 2007. Australian hospital statistics 2005-06. Health services series no. 30. Cat. no. HSE 50. Canberra: AIHW.