Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Sections
- Introduction
- Background
- Structure of this report
- Statistical methods
- General approaches
- Counts
- Population-based rates
- Case-based rates
- Disability-adjusted life years
- Tests for significance and association
- Survey weights and adjusting for cluster sampling
- Mapping to demographic, socioeconomic and geographic classifications
- National Health Survey
- Background
- Access to de-identified unit record National Health Survey data
- Asthma questions included in the National Health Survey
- Using National Health Survey data for asthma monitoring
- Statistical methods for NHS data
- State health surveys
- Background
- Data available from CATI surveys
- National Mortality Database
- Background
- National Mortality Database data items
- Data analysis
- National Hospital Morbidity Database
- Background
- Coding of hospital diagnoses
- National Hospital Morbidity Database data items
- Data analysis
- Hospital re-admissions
- Emergency department data
- Bettering the Evaluation And Care of Health general practice survey
- Background
- Access to BEACH data
- Data items
- Using BEACH data for asthma monitoring
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data
- Background
- Data coverage
- Data items
- Data processing
- Data analyses
- Medicare Australia Online data
- Medical Benefits Scheme data
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme online
- Other data sources
- Pharmacy Guild Survey
- IMS Health data
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- National asthma indicators
- Glossary
- References
- List of Tables
- Appendixes