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Australian hospital statistics 2007-08

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Release Date: 10 Jun 2009
Topic: Hospitals
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2009) Australian hospital statistics 2007-08, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 April 2023.

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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.

  • ISSN: 1036-613X
  • ISBN: 978 1 74024 931 7
  • Cat. no: HSE 71
  • Pages: 416
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  • Preliminary material (361KB PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgments
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
    • Hospitals at a glance
  • Body section
    1. Introduction (187KB PDF)
    2. Overview of Australian hospitals (230KB PDF)
    3. Public hospital establishments (209KB PDF)
    4. Hospital performance indicators (346KB PDF)1
    5. Non-admitted patient care (315KB PDF)
    6. Access to elective surgery (265KB PDF)
    7. Administrative data for admitted patients (308KB PDF)
    8. Demographic profile for admitted patients (236KB PDF)
    9. Principal diagnoses for admitted patients (292KB PDF)
    10. Procedures for admitted patients (323KB PDF)
    11. External causes for admitted patients (227KB PDF)
    12. Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups for admitted patients (291KB PDF)
  • End matter (406KB PDF)
    • Appendixes
      1. Technical appendix (227KB XLS)
      2. Hospitals databases: characteristics and coverage (436KB XLS)
      3. National Hospital Cost Data Collection
      4. Service related groups (159KB XLS)
      5. Potentially preventable hospitalisations (94KB XLS)
      6. The state of our public hospitals, June 2009 report
    • List of tables
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    • Glossary
    • References
    • Index
  1. Notes and corrections

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