Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title page and verso
    • List of tables and figures
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. Introduction 
      1. Background
      2. Purpose of this report
      3. National Hospital Morbidity Database
      4. Limitations related to mortality data
    2. Types of admitted patient palliative care
    3. Public hospital establishments providing palliative care
    4. Palliative care separations by age and sex
    5. Geographic location of patients and hospitals
    6. Country of birth and Indigenous status 
    7. Patient accommodation eligibility status
    8. Setting prior to admission
    9. Mode of separation
    10. Principal and additional diagnoses 
      1. High-volume principal diagnoses
      2. Separations with HIV as additional diagnosis
      3. Number of diagnoses
    11. Procedures 
      1. High-volume procedures
      2. Number of procedures
    12. Deaths in Australia due to neoplasm 
  • End matter 
    • Glossary
    • References