Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (163K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Content
    • List of tables
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (122K PDF)
      • Background
      • This report
      • The NMDS for Admitted Patient Care
      • Admissions, separations and episodes of care
    2. Summary (177K PDF)
      • Coverage of the NMDS data
      • Coverage of hospitals
      • Coverage estimates for private hospital separations
      • Use of national standard definitions, domain values and NMDS scope
      • National summary
      • State and territory summary
    3. Assessment of individual data elements (345K PDF)
      • 3.1 Activity when injured
      • 3.2 Additional diagnosis
      • 3.3 Admission date
      • 3.4 Admitted patient election status
      • 3.5 Area of usual residence
      • 3.6 Care type
      • 3.7 Country of birth
      • 3.8 Date of birth
      • 3.9 Diagnosis Related Group
      • 3.10 Establishment identifier - Establishment number
      • 3.11 Establishment identifier - Establishment sector
      • 3.12 Establishment identifier - Region code
      • 3.13 Establishment identifier - State identifier
      • 3.14 External cause - admitted patient
      • 3.15 Funding source for hospital patient
      • 3.16 Hospital insurance status
      • 3.17 Indigenous status
      • 3.18 Infant weight, neonate, stillborn
      • 3.19 Intended length of hospital stay (348K PDF)
      • 3.20 Inter-hospital contracted patient
      • 3.21 Major Diagnostic Category
      • 3.22 Medicare eligibility status
      • 3.23 Mental health legal status
      • 3.24 Mode of admission
      • 3.25 Mode of separation
      • 3.26 Number of leave periods
      • 3.27 Number of days of hospital-in-the-home care
      • 3.28 Number of qualified days for newborns
      • 3.29 Person identifier
      • 3.30 Place of occurrence of external cause of injury
      • 3.31 Principal diagnosis
      • 3.32 Procedure
      • 3.33 Separation date
      • 3.34 Sex
      • 3.35 Source of referral to public psychiatric hospital
      • 3.36 Total leave days
      • 3.37 Total psychiatric care days
      • 3.38 Urgency of admission
  • End matter (105K PDF)
    • Appendix
    • References