Non-admitted service events are defined as an interaction between one or more health-care provider(s) with one non-admitted patient, which must contain therapeutic/clinical content and result in a dated entry in the patient’s medical record.
Non-admitted patients do not undergo a hospital’s formal admission process but instead receive services as outpatients. The type of care delivered during a non-admitted patient service event can be classified as:
- Subacute:
- Rehabilitation care
- Palliative care
- Geriatric evaluation and management
- Psychogeriatric care
- Mental health care
- Other (any care provided that does not fall within the categories above, for example, Maintenance care and Acute care)
The activity of non-admitted patient care is measured using two different sources:
- clinic-level service events data—used to describe overall patient care reported
- episode-level data—for the 74% of non-admitted patient service events that were also reported, used to provide more detailed information.
Explore the data
The data visualisation below provides information on non-admitted service events in 2018–19 by states and territories and:
- Peer group
- Data source
- Age group and sex
- Clinic type
- Remoteness
- Socioeconomic status
- Indigenous status