Table of contents
- Preliminary material (163K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Content
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Sections
- Introduction (122K PDF)
- Background
- This report
- The NMDS for Admitted Patient Care
- Admissions, separations and episodes of care
- 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
- 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
- Introduction (122K PDF)
- End matter (105K PDF)
- Appendix
- References