Hospital Performance: Cancer surgery waiting times in public hospitals in 2012–13
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) Hospital Performance: Cancer surgery waiting times in public hospitals in 2012–13 , AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 April 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2014). Hospital Performance: Cancer surgery waiting times in public hospitals in 2012–13 . Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Hospital Performance: Cancer surgery waiting times in public hospitals in 2012–13 . AIHW, 2014.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Hospital Performance: Cancer surgery waiting times in public hospitals in 2012–13 . Canberra: AIHW; 2014.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2014, Hospital Performance: Cancer surgery waiting times in public hospitals in 2012–13 , AIHW, Canberra.
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A comparison of waiting times for malignant bowel, breast and lung cancer surgery at public hospitals found that the vast majority had their surgery within 30 days, but 1,028 patients waited longer than 30 days.
This publication was originally published by the National Health Performance Authority, which transferred its activities to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on 1 July 2016.
- ISSN: 2201-3091
- ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-74186-181-5
- Cat. no: HPF 61
- Pages: 22
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Bowel cancer: 564 patients waited longer
than 30 days; 216 of these patients waited
longer than 45 days -
Breast cancer: 357 patients waited longer
than 30 days; 102 of these patients waited
longer than 45 days -
Lung cancer: 107 patients waited longer than 30 days; 28 of these patients waited longer than 45 days
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In 2012–13, a total of 32,665 patients received
surgery for malignant bowel, breast or lung cancer in Australia