Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care National Best Endeavours Dataset
- Collection frequency
Annual
The Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care National Best Endeavours Dataset (ASNAHC NBEDS) holds data from July 1993–94 up to and including 2021–22.
- Baseline data
- 1 January – 31 December 2018
- Latest data
- 1 January – 31 December 2021
- Description of data source
The ASNAHC NBEDS is comprised of information about care provided to subacute and non-acute admitted public and private patients in activity based funded hospitals.
The scope of the NBEDS is:
- Same-day and overnight admitted subacute and non-acute care episodes
- Admitted public patients provided on a contracted basis by private hospitals
- Admitted patients in rehabilitation care, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric and maintenance care treated in the hospital-in-the-home.
For palliative care type episodes, data elements for each change in phase of care is reported.
- Measures reported
- 4.2b Proportion of inpatient unstable palliative care phases that lasted 3 days or less.
- Age group
The age of the patient at the time of treating.
Disaggregation categories: 0–14, 15–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64, 65–74, 75–84, 85 or over.
- Sex
- The sex of the patient according to the categories 'Male’, 'Female’, ‘Intersex or Intermediate’ and ‘Not Stated/ Inadequately described’. Only individuals with sex recorded as 'Male’ or 'Female’ were included in analyses.
- Disaggregation categories: Males, Females.
- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (METEOR Identifier 635126)
- Indigenous status
- Whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin (based on Indigenous status standard question).
- Disaggregation categories: First Nations, non-Indigenous.
- Source: METEOR identifier 602543.
- State/territory
- The state or territory of the usual place of residence of the patient.
- Disaggregation categories: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory.
- Remoteness area
- The Remoteness Area of a person’s usual residence based on Statistical Area Level 2 and according to the Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2016.
- Disaggregation categories: Major Cities, Inner Regional, Outer Regional, and Remote and Very Remote (combined).
- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (METEOR Identifier 697105)
- Socioeconomic area
- The socioeconomic area of a person's usual residence based on Statistical Area Level 2 and according to the ABS Socio-economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD).
- Disaggregation categories: SEIFA IRSD quintiles (1–5 or lowest/ most disadvantaged to highest/ least disadvantaged socioeconomic area).
- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (METEOR Identifier 695778).