Table of contents
- Preliminary material (187KB PDF)
- Title page and verso
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and symbols
- Summary
- Sections (445KB PDF)
- Introduction
- Background
- This report
- Assessments of the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data
- Formal studies of the quality of Indigenous identification
- Current health authority and AIHW assessments of the quality of Indigenous identification
- The causes of poor Indigenous identification
- Current arrangements for ascertaining Indigenous status
- Arrangements at public hospitals
- Arrangements at private hospitals
- Initiatives to improve data quality
- Analysis of Indigenous status information in national hospital separations data
- Overview
- Separations for which Indigenous status was not reported
- The Indigenous subcategories
- Data analysis guidelines
- Summary of the guidelines
- Use of factors to adjust for under-identification of separations for Indigenous patients
- Treatment of separations for which Indigenous status is unreported
- Use of state and territory data
- Use of private hospital data
- Use of data for the Indigenous subcategories
- Regional analysis of hospital separations data
- Use of age standardisation and population data
- Recommendations for improving Indigenous identification in hospital
separations data
- Introduction
- End matter (319KB PDF)
- Appendix A: Detailed tables
- Appendix B: Survey of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data
- References