Table of contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Symbols
  • Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Method
    • Step 1: estimating the cost of each separation
    • Step 2: scaling costs to total hospital expenditure
    • Step 3: assigning expenditure to diagnoses
  • 3 Overview of findings
    • Total admitted patient expenditure
    • Growth in expenditure
  • 4 Demographics
    • Expenditure by age
    • Expenditure by sex
    • Expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    • Expenditure by geographical location
    • Expenditure on children aged under 1
  • 5 Disease expenditure groups
    • Mapping ICD-10-AM to disease expenditure groups
    • Expenditure by disease expenditure groups
  • 6 Future directions
  • Appendix A: Data Quality Statement
  • Appendix B: Limitations of the current method
  • Appendix C: Comparison of the current and previous methods
  • Appendix D: Adjusting for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander under-identification
  • Appendix E: Mapping of ICD-10-AM codes
  • Appendix F: Overview of expenditure by disease classified using ICD-10-AM
  • Appendix G: Hospital admitted patient expenditure tables
  • Glossary
  • References
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Related publications