Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • Acknowledgments
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      • This report
      • State and Territory data coverage
      • Definitions
    2. State and Territory overview
      • Distribution of waiting times
      • Additions and removals from waiting lists
    3. Specialty of surgeon
      • Distribution of waiting times
      • Admissions from waiting lists
    4. Indicator procedure
      • Distribution of days waited
      • Admissions from waiting lists
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1 New South Wales
      • Appendix 2 Victoria
      • Appendix 3 Queensland
      • Appendix 4 Western Australia
      • Appendix 5 South Australia
      • Appendix 6 Tasmania
      • Appendix 7 Australian Capital Territory
      • Appendix 8 Northern Territory
      • Appendix 9 Hospital peer groups (135K XLS)
        The table lists the public hospitals included in the National Hospital Morbidity Database and flags hospitals reporting to the National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Collection. Information on the peer group of the hospitals is provided, based on the hospital peer group classification developed by the Institute for cost per casemix adjusted separation analysis and on the hospital peer groups classification adapted from this for use in this report. Information about the average available bed numbers and the Statistical local Area and Rural, Remote, Metropolitan Area of the hospitals is also included.
    • Glossary
    • References