Notes

Amendments

20 Jul 2006 - Appendix 7 has been updated following the publication of The state of our public hospitals, June 2006 report by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

28 Jul 2006 - Chapter 12 Supplementary tables provide additional state and territory tables by Diagnosis related groups in AR-DRG version 5.1.

  • Appendix 4 tables have been updated to include lists of public and private hospitals.
  • Appendix 5 tables have been updated to provide additional state and territory tables by Service related groups.

30 Oct 2006 - Changes have been made to column headings for table A4.2 and A4.3.

9 Nov 2006 - Figure 5.1, Tables 5.1-5.4, Figure 6.1 and Tables 6.1- 6.5 have been updated to correspond with the presentation in the hardcopy and PDF versions of the report. There were no changes to the data presented, and the update has been applied to the excel workbook only.

2 Jan 2007 - Tables 2.1, 2.2, 2.6, 4.4, A4.5 and A4.6l have been updated to include 2004-05 private hospital data from the ABS's Private Health Establishments Collection that were not available at the time of publication.

  • Tables 2.3 and 2.4 have been updated with 2004-05 public hospital cost weights for AR-DRG Version 5.0 that were unavailable at the time of publication, and to correct an error in the footnotes.
  • Table 3.5 has been updated following corrections to some of the expenditure data. Table 10.6 has been replaced to correct an error in the original table.
  • Chapter 12 has been updated following the release of the Round 9 2004-05 cost weights based on AR-DRG version 5.0.
  • For Table 12.1, the Relative stay indexes for all categories have been updated.
  • Note: The original Tables 4.13 and 7.13 in the PDF were incorrect. The correct versions of these tables were included in the excel workbooks.
  • Note: PDF versions of the updated material are currently unavailable and the full publication PDF doesn't reflect these updates.

16 Sep 2009 - Table 8.8 and Figure 8.1 titles corrected.