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
- What is palliative care?
- 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
- Who received palliative care?
- 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
- 1 Introduction
- 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
- National Hospital Morbidity Database
- 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
- Appendixes