First national report on health sector performance indicators

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A report of the National Ministers' Benchmarking Working Group to the Australian Health Ministers' Conference.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 1 July 1996; ISBN-13 978 0 644 46441 3; AusInfo cat. no. AGPS 96 0030 2; 109pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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  • Preliminary material (75K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of figures
    • List of tables
    • Preface
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Chapters
    1. Introduction (62K PDF)
      • Preamble
      • Background
      • Objectives
      • Scope
      • Data sources
      • Data quality and availability
      • Comparing hospital performance
      • Structure of the report
    2. The acute hospital sector in context (79K PDF)
      • The Australian health care system
      • Australia's people
    3. Hospital performance indicators (224K PDF)
      • Framework and development
      • Efficiency
      • Productivity
      • Quality
      • Access
    4. Benchmarking in the health sector (60K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Application to the health sector
    5. Where to from here? (66K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Improve indicators currently reported
      • Develop indicators not currently reported
      • Extend the set of indicators to cover the framework
      • Other activities
      • Conclusion
  • End matter (65K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Membership of the National Health Ministers' Benchmarking Working Group at October 1995
      • Appendix B: Groups and programs related to the National Health Ministers' Benchmarking Working Group
      • Appendix C: Framework of hospital performance indicators: public acute hospitals
      • Appendix D: Extracts from National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD), Summary edition 1993 (National Minimum Data Set Review Committee 1993)
      • Appendix E: Analysis of HASAC estimation of inpatient fractions
      • Appendix F: Comparison of expenditure data sources
      • Appendix G: Descriptive data for top 20 AN-DRGs
      • Appendix H: ICD-9-CM codes for sentinel procedures
      • Appendix I: Test of significance for intervention rates
    • References
    • Glossary
    • Selected bibliography

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