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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.
Authored by AIHW.
Published 11 June 2008 ; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 793 1; AIHW cat. no. HSE 57; 88pp.; $28.00
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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
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:
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
