Data are reported by year of separation. Separation rates were age-adjusted using the Australian population as at 30 June 2001.
Source:
NSW Inpatient Statistics Collection and ABS population estimates (HOIST). Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Health.
The data on this page relate to hospital separations. A hospital separation occurs whenever a patient is admitted to hospital (including a day-only admission) and is then discharged, transferred to another hospital or dies while in hospital. Hospitalisation rates are affected by many factors, including changes in reporting, admission and treatment practices, changes in the number of hospitals beds per head of population, as well as underlying changes in the occurrence of conditions requiring hospitalisation.
Older people use hospitals more than younger people, so that as the proportion of older people in the population increases, the overall (crude) hospital separation rate is also expected to increase. Age-adjustment controls for the effect of changes in the age structure of the population, allowing for valid comparisons of hospital separation rates over time.
The age-adjusted hospital separation rate in NSW increased from 26,825 separations per 100,000 population in 1992/93 to 30,330 separations per 100,000 population in 2003/04. females). (see the Methods section for more details).
Throughout much of this period, there has been little change in the rates of admission to hospital for both males and females in Hunter New England. This relative constancy in the rates also means that there has also been no change in the age-adjusted female to male rate ratio of about 113 female admissions per 100 males admissions.
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The information presented in this report result from analyses of a variety of social and health focused datasets. These datasets originate from a variety of sources including Hunter New England Health, the NSW Department of Health, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The timing of the release of these data to third parties is controlled by the owner of these data. It is therefore possible for these organisations to publish data that they have not yet made available to Hunter New England Population Health for analysis and release. Users should therefore check the publications of these organisations as it is possible that they may have published even more up to date information on Hunter New England than those available in this report. As this report is an ongoing project, the indicators presented will be updated as soon as possible after the release of all datasets to Hunter New England Population Health.
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