Australian hospital statistics 2007-08

Australian hospital statistics 2007-08

$44.00

Phone, fax or email orders:

CanPrint
Tel. 1300 889 873
Fax 02 6293 8333
Email

Read the related media release.

View other publications in the same series: Health services series.

View other publications by the same author: AIHW.

View other publications in the same subject area: Health and welfare services and care.

Health services series no. 33

Australian hospital statistics 2007-08 presents a broad range of information on Australian public and private hospitals. In 2007-08 there were: 7.9 million hospitalisations , 60% of these were in public acute hospitals; 566,000 admissions from public hospital elective surgery waiting lists with a median waiting time of 34 days; 7.1 million presentations to public hospital emergency departments, with 69% of patients seen within recommended times for their triage categories; and 1,314 public and private hospitals. Public hospital expenditure was $29 billion.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 10 June 2009; ISSN 1036-613X; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 931 7; AIHW cat. no. HSE 71; 416pp.; $44.00

Tell us what you think about Australian hospital statistics 2007-08—complete our two-minute survey! [external link]

We would value your honest feedback on this and other publications in our publications effectiveness survey.


Download free

Help with downloads


Full publication


Publication table of contents


Additional material

Supplementary tables


Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above.

Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. Tables presenting cost weight information in Chapter 4 have been updated with 2007-08 public and private hospital cost weights for AR-DRG Version 5.1 unavailable at the time of publication. The updates have been applied to the excel workbook only. (8 December 2009)
  2. Chapter 10: Procedures for admitted patients - supplementary tables updated to correct errors in the original workbook. (15 December 2009)