Table of contents
- Preliminary pages
- Title & verso title pages
- Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- How much elective surgery was provided?
- What care was provided?
- How long did people wait for surgery?
- Body content
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 What's in this report?
- 1.2 What data are reported?
- 1.3 What terms and methods are used?
- 1.4 Additional information
- 2 How much elective surgery was provided?
- Key findings
- 2.1 How many public hospitals provided elective surgery?
- 2.2 How many patients were added to or removed from elective surgery waiting lists?
- 2.3 How many admissions were there from waiting lists?
- 3 What care was provided?
- 3.1 Surgical specialties
- 3.2 Surgical (indicator) procedures
- 4 How long did people wait for elective surgery?
- Key findings
- 4.1 How did waiting times vary across states and territories and by type of hospital?
- 4.2 How did waiting times vary by surgical specialty?
- 4.3 How did waiting times vary by surgical (indicator) procedure?
- 4.4 How did waiting times vary by Indigenous status?
- 4.5 Performance indicator: Waiting times for elective surgery-waiting time in days
- 4.6 How did waiting times differ by clinical urgency category?
- 5 What was the safety and quality of the care?
- Key findings
- 5.1 Adverse events reported for elective surgery admissions
- 5.2 Unplanned readmissions following admission from elective surgery waiting lists
- 1 Introduction
- End matter
- Appendix A: Data quality information
- Appendix B: Technical notes
- Appendix C: Public hospital peer groups
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Related publications