Australia's hospitals 2014–15 at a glance

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Release Date: 29 Jul 2016

Topic: Hospitals

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2016) Australia's hospitals 2014–15 at a glance, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 19 April 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2016). Australia's hospitals 2014–15 at a glance. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's hospitals 2014–15 at a glance. AIHW, 2016.

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Australia’s hospitals 2014–15 at a glance provides summary information on Australia’s public and private hospitals. In 2014–15, there were 10.2 million hospitalisations, including 2.5 million involving surgery. Public hospitals provided care for 7.4 million presentations to emergency departments, with 74% of patients seen within recommended times for their triage category and about 73% completed within 4 hours. This publication is a companion to the 2014–15 Australian hospital statistics suite of publications.

ISSN: 2205-5096 (PDF) 1036-613X (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-74249-967-3
Cat. no: HSE 175
Pages: 36

Findings from this report:

1 in 4 hospitalisations involved surgery. 60% of surgery took place in private hospitals
1 in 4 hospitalisations were emergency admissions
10.2 million hospitalisations (6.0 million in public hospitals, 4.2 million in private hospitals)
131,000 hospitalisations involved a stay in intensive care

What services do Australia's hospitals provide?

Australia's hospitals provide a range of services for:

non-admitted patients in:
- emergency department services
- outpatient clinics
admitted patients—including emergency and planned (elective) care, maternity services, and medical and surgical services

Variation in data on hospital services

There are national standards for data on hospital services. However, there are some variations in how hospital services are defined and counted between public and private hospitals but also among the states and territories, and over time.
For example, admission practices vary for some services, such as chemotherapy and endoscopy. As a result, people receiving the same type of service may be counted as same-day admitted patients in some hospitals, and as non-admitted patients in other hospitals
In addition, some services are provided by hospitals in some jurisdictions, and by non-hospital health services in others. The national data on hospital care does not include care provided by non-hospital providers, such as community health centres.

Australia's hospitals 2014–15 at a glance

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What services do Australia's hospitals provide?

Variation in data on hospital services

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