Table of contents
- Preliminary material (75K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Chapters
- Introduction (62K PDF)
- Preamble
- Background
- Objectives
- Scope
- Data sources
- Data quality and availability
- Comparing hospital performance
- Structure of the report
- The acute hospital sector in context (79K PDF)
- The Australian health care system
- Australia's people
- Hospital performance indicators (224K PDF)
- Framework and development
- Efficiency
- Productivity
- Quality
- Access
- Benchmarking in the health sector (60K PDF)
- Introduction
- Application to the health sector
- Where to from here? (66K PDF)
- Introduction
- Improve indicators currently reported
- Develop indicators not currently reported
- Extend the set of indicators to cover the framework
- Other activities
- Conclusion
- Introduction (62K PDF)
- End matter (65K PDF)
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Membership of the National Health Ministers' Benchmarking Working Group at October 1995
- Appendix B: Groups and programs related to the National Health Ministers' Benchmarking Working Group
- Appendix C: Framework of hospital performance indicators: public acute hospitals
- Appendix D: Extracts from National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD), Summary edition 1993 (National Minimum Data Set Review Committee 1993)
- Appendix E: Analysis of HASAC estimation of inpatient fractions
- Appendix F: Comparison of expenditure data sources
- Appendix G: Descriptive data for top 20 AN-DRGs
- Appendix H: ICD-9-CM codes for sentinel procedures
- Appendix I: Test of significance for intervention rates
- References
- Glossary
- Selected bibliography
- Appendixes