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Hospital Performance: Costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2015) Hospital Performance: Costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 27 September 2023.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). Hospital Performance: Costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/hospitals/hospital-performance-costs-acute-patients-2011-12
Hospital Performance: Costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 30 April 2015, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/hospitals/hospital-performance-costs-acute-patients-2011-12
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Hospital Performance: Costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12 [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2015 [cited 2023 Sep. 27]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/hospitals/hospital-performance-costs-acute-patients-2011-12
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2015, Hospital Performance: Costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12, viewed 27 September 2023, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/hospitals/hospital-performance-costs-acute-patients-2011-12
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This report is the first to allow meaningful comparisons of costs for acute admitted patients in public hospitals. Through innovative development work by the National Health Performance Authority, two measures have been used to assess the relative efficiency of Australia’s largest public hospitals: Cost per National Weighted Activity Unit (NWAU) and Comparable Cost of Care. These assess the overall relative efficiency of Australian public hospitals by reporting costs against units of activity, which allow different treatments and operations to be compared fairly.
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.
Cost per NWAU was more than two times as high in similar hospitals
Comparable Cost of Care was nearly two times as high in similar hospitals
The cost of some conditions and procedures was nearly four times as high in similar hospitals
The results were similar measuring Cost per NWAU and Comparable Cost of Care
Hospital Performance: Costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12