Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- List of tables and graphs
- Summary
- Sections
- Introduction
- Methods and data quality
- Hospital separations data
- Classification of diagnoses and procedures
- Identifying Indigenous patients in hospital separation records
- Missing data
- Population estimates
- Rates of hospitalisation
- Effects of data inadequacies on rate calculations
- Hospital separations data
- Overview of hospital utilisation
- Hospital separations
- Hospital sector
- Age-specific hospital separation rates
- Separations by State and Territory of usual residence
- Same day separations
- Average length of stay
- Mode of separation
- Indigenous identification
- procedures
- Hospital sector
- Hospital separations
- Principal diagnoses
- Principal diagnoses
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
- Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium
- Respiratory diseases
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
- Digestive diseases
- Mental and behavioural disorders
- Genitourinary system diseases
- Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissues
- Nervous system diseases
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disorders
- Principal diagnosis by State and Territory of usual residence
- Principal diagnoses
- Procedures
- Procedures
- Age-specific rates for procedures
- Procedures recorded by principal diagnosis
- Types of procedures
- Procedures performed on a same day basis
- Operations on the urinary system
- Allied health interventions
- Obstetric procedures
- Miscellaneous procedures
- Operations on the musculoskeletal system
- Dermatological and plastic procedures
- Operations on the digestive system
- Imaging services
- Procedures by State and Territory
- Procedures
- Discussion
- End matter
- Appendix A: ICD-10-AM codes groupings used in this publication
- Appendix B: The introduction of ICD-10-AM
- Appendix C: Jurisdictional assessments of the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separation records
- Appendix D: National Health Data Dictionary - Indigenous status data element
- Appendix E: List of references
- Abbreviations and Symbols