Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Hospitals at a glance
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
    2. Overview of Australian hospitals5
    3. Public hospital establishments5
    4. Hospital performance indicators5
    5. Non-admitted patient emergency department care
    6. Waiting times for elective surgery 
    7. Administrative data for admitted patients 
    8. Demographic profile for admitted patients6
    9. Principal diagnoses for admitted patients 
    10. Procedures for admitted patients5
    11. External causes for admitted patients 
    12. Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups for admitted patients5
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: List of tables 
      • Appendix 2: List of figures 
      • Appendix 3: Technical notes
      • Appendix 4: Hospitals contributing to this report and public hospital peer groups 
      • Appendix 5: Service Related Groups
      • Appendix 6: National Hospital Cost Data Collection
      • Appendix 7: The State of Our Public Hospitals, June 2006 report 
    • Glossary
    • References
    • Index