Elective surgery in Australia: new measures of access
Access to elective surgery in public hospitals is of interest to health providers, policy makers and the general public. This report presents a detailed picture of access to elective surgery services in Australia using combined admitted patient and elective surgery waiting times data.
ISBN 978 1 74024 793 1; Cat. no. HSE 57; 88pp.; Out of print
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Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Sections
- Introduction
- Background
- Methods to measure access to elective surgery
- This report
- Current reporting of information on access to elective surgery
- Limitations of the current measures of access to elective surgery
- New measures
- Methods
- Measures of supply of elective surgery
- Public and private elective surgery
- Elective surgery separation rates
- Public elective surgery
- Measures of demand for public elective surgery
- Current reporting of elective surgery waiting times
- New measures of demand
- Adverse events
- Overview
- Public elective surgery
- Future directions
- End matter
- Appendix - statistical tables
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Glossary
- References
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.
- Median waiting times data have been corrected for the following (11/06/2008):
- Page x - The overall median waiting time (by Indigenous status) has been corrected from 29 days to 28 days.
- Page 28 - The overall median waiting time (by Indigenous status) has been corrected from 29 days to 28 days.
- Page 65, Table A1.20 - The overall median waiting time for females has been corrected from 28 days to 29 days
Recommended citation
AIHW 2008. Elective surgery in Australia: new measures of access. Cat. no. HSE 57. Canberra: AIHW.