Indigenous identification in hospital separations data: quality report

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Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (247KB PDF)
  • Title and verso pages
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Summary
    • Overall
    • States and territories
    • Remoteness areas
  • Recommendations
• Body section (297KB PDF)
  1. Background
     • 1.1 This report
     • 1.2 Previous projects
       • The 1998 pilot project
       • The 2005 Indigenous identification project
     • 1.3 Indications of Indigenous status data quality
       • Indigenous status reporting, 2006–07
       • Changes in Indigenous status reporting 2002–03 to 2006–07
  2. The Indigenous identification quality project
     • 2.1 Introduction
     • 2.2 The Indigenous identification audit
       • Project organisation
       • Ethics approval
     • 2.3 ACT Hospital Data Linkage Project
       • Project organisation
       • Ethics approval
  3. Method
     • 3.1 Introduction
     • 3.2 The Indigenous identification audit
       • Method
       • Sampling strategy
       • Completeness and correction factors
       • Weighting
       • Confidence intervals
     • 3.3 ACT Hospital Data Linkage Project
       • Method
       • Selection of patients
  4. Results
     • 4.1 Study results
       • The Indigenous identification audit
       • Audit results by remoteness area
       • ACT Hospital Data Linkage Project
     • 4.2 Estimated Indigenous identification levels in hospital admissions data
       • Indigenous identification audit
       • ACT Hospital Data Linkage project
       • Overall
     • 4.3 Discussion
       • States and territories
       • Remoteness areas
       • Estimated correction factors
       • Remoteness areas
  5. Recommendations
     • 5.1 Amendments to the analysis guidelines
     • 5.2 Summary of data analysis guidelines and recommendations
       • Data analysis guidelines
       • Summary of recommendations for improving Indigenous identification in separations data
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix 1: Technical notes (206KB PDF)
      • A1.1 Sampling strategy
      • A1.2 Estimation
      • A1.3 Possible sources of error or bias
      • A1.4 Hospital separations for care involving dialysis
    • Appendix 2: Information and data collection package (1.4MB PDF)
      • A2.1 Survey methodology
      • A2.2 Interviewers’ information
      • A2.3 Patient information sheet
      • A2.4 Patient information flyer
      • A2.5 Instructions to interviewers
      • A2.6 Questionnaire
      • A2.7 The report sheet
  • References
  • List of tables and figures