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.
Authored by AIHW.
Published 31 May 2007; ISSN 1036-613X; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 690 3; AIHW cat. no. HSE 50; 394pp.; OUT OF PRINT
The current version of the publication is presented above. Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.
Chapter 6 tables have been updated following corrections to the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Database.
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'.
