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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020. Palliative care services in Australia. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 30 September 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/palliative-care-services/palliative-care-services-in-australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Palliative care services in Australia. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/palliative-care-services/palliative-care-services-in-australia
Palliative care services in Australia. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 15 September 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/palliative-care-services/palliative-care-services-in-australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Palliative care services in Australia [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2020 [cited 2020 Sep. 30]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/palliative-care-services/palliative-care-services-in-australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2020, Palliative care services in Australia, viewed 30 September 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/palliative-care-services/palliative-care-services-in-australia
The goal of palliative care is to improve the quality of life of patients with an active, progressive disease that has little or no prospect of a cure. With the growth and ageing of Australia's population, and an increase of chronic and generally incurable illnesses, the types of patient groups requiring palliative care has widened.
Palliative care services in Australia has been published as a web only report since 2015.
79,932 hospitalisations were palliative care-related in 2017-18
35.8% of all hospitalisations where the patient died received palliative care and 18.0% received other end-of-life care.
Palliative care services in Australia is an online web report on the activity and characteristics of palliative care services across Australia. Data is presented under specific topic areas with detailed data available for current and previous years in the attached Microsoft ® Excel workbooks. This palliative care report is updated with new data twice a year.
Image showing 2 key points in palliative care workforce for 2018. 271 palliative medicine pyshicians and 3,528 palliative care nurses
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Image stating from palliative care outcomes data 93% of patients had their episode commence by the day after they were ready for care.
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Image about MBS expenditure on subisdised specialist services with a line graph showing $5.2 million was spent in 2013-14 and $7 million in 2018-19
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Image with text saying 1 in 56 aged care residents had and ACFI appraisal indicatng the need for palliative care.
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A bar chart showing state and territory breakdowns per 100,000 population for palliative care prescriptions rates in 2017-18. NSW 4,780, VIC 3,758, QLD 4,326, WA 3,830, SA 4,814, TAS 6,811, ACT 4,289, NT 3,614 and the total 4,610
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Image showing there were 79,932 palliative care hospitalisation in 2017-18, 45,561 were palliative care and 34,371 were for other end of life care.
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