Code 1 Major metropolitan hospitals Metropolitan hospitals with >20,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations and >20,000 ED presentations per annum. AIHW A1 peer group >20,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations. Excludes: Specialist women's and children's hospitals A2 AIHW peer group. Code 2 Major regional hospitals Regional hospitals with >16,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations and >20,000 ED presentations per annum. AIHW A1 peer group >16,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations. Excludes: Specialist women's and children's hospitals A2 AIHW peer group. Code 3 Large metropolitan hospitals Metropolitan acute hospitals treating >10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations and >20,000 ED presentations per annum. B1 and B2 AIHW peer group >10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations. Code 4 Large regional hospitals Large regional acute hospitals treating >8,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations and >20,000 ED presentations per annum. All B1 and B2 AIHW peer group >8,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations. Code 5 Medium hospitals Medium acute hospitals in metropolitan and regional areas treating between 5,000 and 10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations and >20,000 ED presentations per annum. All Code 6 Small acute, small sub-acute and small non-acute hospitals Includes: - Small Regional acute hospitals (mainly small country town hospitals), acute hospitals treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with less than 40% non-acute and outlier patient days of total patient days;
- Small Remote hospitals (<5,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations but not 'multi-purpose services' and not 'small non-acute'). Most are <2,000 separations;
- Small non-acute hospitals, treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with more than 40% non-acute and outlier patient days of total patient days.
Code 7 Specialist women's and children's Specialised acute women’s and children's hospitals with >10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum. All A2 peer group hospitals. Code 8 Other Multi-purpose services, Hospices, Rehabilitation, Mothercraft, Other non-acute and Unpeered and other hospitals. E2, E4, E5, E9, F and G AIHW peer group hospitals. |