Number of potentially preventable hospitalisations - heart failure per 100,000 people, of all ages, 2014-15 to 2017-18

Collection and usage attributes

All ages

Inclusion codes, description and additional requirements

Exclusion codes, desciption and additional requirements

Exclusion codes and description

Presented as a number of hospitalisations per 100,000 people.

Rates  are directly age- and sex- standardised, to the 30 June 2001 Australian population, using 5-year age groups: 0-4, 5-9, … , 80-84, 85 and over.

Indigenous and other Australian rates are directly age and sex standardised, to the 30 June 2001 Australian population, using 5-year age groups: 0-4, 5-9, … , 60–64, 65 and over.

Population estimates at 31 December are calculated as an average of the 30 June population estimates before and after the relevant December to derive a midpoint (31 December) population estimate.

For more information about age-standardisation in general see glossary item Age-standardised rate. 

Analysis by Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) 2016 is based on:

• Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) 2011 of usual residence of the patient for 2014-15 to 2016-17, converted to SA3 (ASGS 2016) equivalents through an ABS concordance file
• SA2 2016 of usual residence of the patient for 2017-18.

Suppress data (number and rate) if at least one of the following conditions are met:

• the total denominator is less than 1,000
• the total numberator is less than 20

Age and sex standardised rates are also suppressed where the denominator for at least one of the age and sex groups used to calculate the rate is below 30 and results of sensitivity analysis indicate that the rates are volatile. However, for SA3 data, if the volatilityof the rate is not found to have a material impact on its decile, the rate is published with caution. For more information about the sensitivity analysis, see the Technical supplement of the Fourth Atlas.

Consequential suppression may be applied to preserve confidentialised data.

100,000 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Number of heart failure hospitalisations, 2014-15 to 2017-18

Total population as at 31 December 2014, 31 December 2015, 31 December 2016 and 31 December 2017.

SA3 2016

Remoteness (ASGS Remoteness structure 2016)
Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA 2016) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD 2016)

Primary Health Network (PHN) 2017

State and territory by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status

Representational attributes

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Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3s) are geographic areas defined in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). The aim of SA3s is to create a standard framework for the analysis of ABS data at the regional level through clustering groups of SA2s that have similar regional characteristics. There are 340 spatial SA3s covering the whole of Australia without gaps or overlaps. They are designed to provide a regional breakdown of Australia. SA3s generally have a population of between 30,000 and 130,000 people. There are approximately 78 with fewer than 30,000 people and 46 with more than 130,000 as at 30 June 2016. The Other Territories of Jervis Bay, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island are each represented by a SA3 in the 2016 ASGS. For further information see the ABS publication, Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2016.

The scope of the NHMD is episodes of care for admitted patients in all public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free-standing day hospital facilities and alcohol and drug treatment centres in Australia. Hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, corrections authorities and in Australia’s off-shore territories are not in scope, but some are included. 

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation 2021

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Source and reference attributes

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

For more information about potentially preventable hospitalisations see:

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18–Selected potentially preventable hospitalisations, 2019  

Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation, 2017: Technical Supplement

Relational attributes