National Healthcare Agreement: PI 47-Rates of services: Non-acute care separations, 2012

Collection and usage attributes

Non-acute care includes separations with a care type of rehabilitation, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric care, or maintenance care.

Numerator is restricted to overnight admissions (date of admission and date of separation are different).

Rates directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.

Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service.

Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.

Presented per 1,000 population.

1,000 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

2009–10—Nationally, by care type, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles

2007–08 (resupplied for revised Indigenous and SEIFA analysis), and 2009–10—State and territory, by care type (and total), by:

• hospital sector
• Indigenous status
• remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)
• SEIFA IRSD quintiles

Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.

Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2009–10.

The scope of the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is episodes of care for admitted patients in essentially all hospitals in Australia, including public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free-standing day hospital facilities, alcohol and drug treatment hospitals and dental hospitals.

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