Overview

Health performance measures help us to ensure that services delivered in Australia are effective, appropriate and are achieving good outcomes for patients and the wider community. Reporting of safety and quality aspects also ensure that health care is being delivered in line with current professional knowledge and standards. Together, this kind of information can help consumers make informed choices about available services.

More reports and statistics on health care quality & performance can be found under Hospitals and International comparisons.

Latest findings

There were more than 715,000 potentially preventable hospitalisations in 2016–17 More than 9% of all hospital bed days were for potentially preventable hospitalisations Around 6% of all hospitalisations were potentially preventable 18% of SAB cases in 2017–18 were resistant to commonly used antimicrobials All jurisdictions had public hospital SAB rates below the national benchmark 82% of SAB cases in 2017–18 were treatable with commonly used antimicrobials 1,493 cases of SAB were reported in public hospitals in 2017–18, compared to 1,501 cases in 2016–17 Rates of potentially preventable hospitalisations varied greatly across local areas The national SAB rate in public hospitals for 2017–18 was 0.73 cases per 10,000 patient days

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Highlights