Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
      • Symbols
    • Executive summary
      • Over 50,000 palliative care separations in 2008–09
      • Substantial increase in palliative care separations over time
      • Increase in palliative care before death in hospital
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • What is palliative care?
        • Palliative care as defined in admitted patient data collections
      • Scope of this report
      • Structure of this report
      • National framework for palliative care
        • National Palliative Care Program
        • National Palliative Care Strategy
      • Data sources
      • Data interpretation
    • 2 Palliative care in 2008–09
      • How many palliative care separations were there?
      • Where was the palliative care provided?
        • Public versus private hospitals
        • Type of public hospital
      • How long did patients stay?
      • How much hospital care was provided in the patient's home?
    • 3 Patient characteristics in 2008–09
      • Who received palliative care?
        • Differences by Indigenous status
        • Differences by remoteness area
        • Differences by socioeconomic status
      • What was the diagnosis?
        • Diseases based on principal diagnosis
        • Diseases based on principal and additional diagnoses
        • Separations with cancer as a diagnosis
    • 4 Profile of palliative care separations in 2008–09
      • Setting before admission
      • What care was provided?
        • Medical, surgical or other care
        • Procedures
      • Who paid for the care?
      • How was the care completed?
    • 5 Trends in palliative care separations
      • Change over time in the amount of activity
      • Change over time by sector
      • Change over time by jurisdiction
      • Change over time in length of stay
    • 6 Palliative care and deaths in hospital
      • Place of death
      • Palliative care patients
      • Palliative care cancer patients
        • Differences by hospital characteristics
        • Differences by patient characteristics
          • Differences by sex
          • Differences by age
          • Differences by Indigenous status
          • Differences by remoteness area
          • Differences by socioeconomic status
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Additional tables
      • Appendix B: Identifying palliative care separations
        • 'Care type' data item
        • Diagnosis data items
        • Identifying palliative care separations
      • Appendix C: Data sources
        • National Hospital Morbidity Database
          • Episode-based data
          • Coverage
          • Standard admitted patient care data exclusions
          • Further information
        • National Public Hospital Establishments Database
        • Population data
        • Mortality data
      • Appendix D: Technical notes
        • Age-specific rates
        • Age-standardised rates
        • Descriptive analyses
        • Disease-related information
          • Disease information at the broad level
          • Disease information at the specific level
          • A principal diagnosis of Palliative care
        • Patient day statistics
        • Public hospital peer groups
        • Quality of Indigenous status data
        • State and territory data
      • Appendix E: Classifications
        • Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI)
        • Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group (AR-DRG) classification
        • Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Areas
        • Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
        • International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)
          • ICD-10-AM
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures