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

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