Hospital procedures for diseases of the digestive tract in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians

Hospital procedures for diseases of the digestive tract in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians

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Hospitalisation rates for diseases of the digestive system are lower among Indigenous peoples compared with other Australians. However, of those who are hospitalised with a disease of the digestive system, Indigenous people are less likely to have a procedure recorded than other Australians. The aim of this study was to examine patterns of undergoing a procedure for diseases of the digestive tract once in hospital for Indigenous Australians compared with other Australians, after adjustment for a number of explanatory variables.

Authored by Al-Yaman F, Herceg A, Moore A & Vu H.

Published 2 December 2008; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 861 7; AIHW cat. no. IHW 23; 52pp.; $25.00


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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary (HTML)
  • Body sections
    1. Background
      • 1.1 Hospitalisations with a procedure recorded for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
      • 1.2 Procedures of the digestive system
    2. Objectives of study
      • 2.1 Methods
    3. Results
      • 3.1 Appendicitis
      • 3.2 Complicated or uncomplicated hernias
      • 3.3 Selected diseases of the extrahepatic biliary tree
      • 3.4 Selected non-neoplastic anorectal disease
      • 3.5 Malignant neoplasms of the large intestine andrectum
    4. Discussion
      • 4.1 Possible explanation of specific results
      • 4.2 Limitations when interpreting data extracted from the National Hospital Morbidity Database
      • 4.3 Variables not controlled for in the analysis
      • 4.4 Issues related to backward elimination and multivariate analysis
    5. Conclusion
  • End matter
    • Appendix
    • References
    • List of tables