Public and Private Hospitals

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• Preliminaries (PDF - 405 Kb)
  Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Terms of reference, Contents, Abbreviations, and Glossary
• Overview - including key points (PDF - 287 Kb)
• Findings (PDF - 165 Kb)
• Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 276 Kb)
  1.1 What the Commission has been asked to do
  1.2 Report structure and study approach
  1.3 Future data improvements
  1.4 Conduct of the study
• Chapter 2 Australia's public hospital sector (PDF - 329 Kb)
  2.1 Role and structure of public hospitals
  2.2 Characteristics of public hospitals
  2.3 Services provided by public hospitals
  2.4 Workforce characteristics
  2.5 Recent developments in public hospitals
• Chapter 3 Australia's private hospital sector (PDF - 277 Kb)
  3.1 Structure of private hospitals
  3.2 Characteristics of private hospitals
  3.3 Services provided by private hospitals
  3.4 Workforce characteristics
  3.5 Private freestanding day hospitals
  3.6 Recent developments in private hospitals
• Chapter 4 Public and private hospitals in the health system (PDF - 278 Kb)
  4.1 Similarities and differences
  4.2 Relationship between the two sectors
  4.3 Possible directions for hospitals
• Chapter 5 Hospital and medical costs (PDF - 329 Kb)
  5.1 Cost indicators
  5.2 Data sources and estimation methods
  5.3 Cost per casemix-adjusted separation
  5.4 Average cost of individual DRGs
  5.5 Improving future cost comparisons
• Chapter 6 Hospital-acquired infections (PDF - 277 Kb)
  6.1 Types of hospital-acquired infections
  6.2 How should infection rates be measured and compared?
  6.3 Available evidence on hospital-acquired infections
  6.4 Developments to improve future comparisons
• Chapter 7 Other partial indicators (PDF - 309 Kb)
  7.1 Productivity
  7.2 Access to hospital services
  7.3 Quality and patient safety
  7.4 Developments to improve future comparisons
• Chapter 8 Multivariate analysis (PDF - 254 Kb)
  8.1 About the Commission's multivariate analysis
  8.2 Profile of hospitals in the sample
  8.3 Factors affecting hospital performance
  8.4 Factors contributing to best-practice benchmarks
  8.5 Hospital efficiencies
  8.6 Further analysis
• Chapter 9 Informed financial consent (PDF - 300 Kb)
  9.1 Potential impediments to the provision of informed financial consent
  9.2 Informed financial consent data sources and their suitability
  9.3 Rates of informed financial consent
  9.4 Out-of-pocket expenses
  9.5 Future data improvements
  9.6 Best-practice examples of IFC
• Chapter 10 Indexation of the Medicare Levy Surcharge income thresholds (PDF - 229 Kb)
  10.1 Background to the Medicare Levy Surcharge
  10.2 Why index the MLS thresholds?
  10.3 Possible indexation factors
  10.4 Assessment of potential indexation factors
• Appendix A Public consultation (PDF - 164 Kb)
• Appendix B National Healthcare Agreement performance indicators (PDF - 194 Kb)
• Appendix C Other health performance monitoring frameworks (PDF - 326 Kb)
• Appendix D Constructing estimates of hospital and medical costs (PDF - 345 Kb)
• Appendix E Multivariate analysis in detail (PDF - 292 Kb)
• Appendix F State-level data on hospital-acquired infections (PDF - 235 Kb)
• Appendix G Referee reports on mode (PDF - 156 Kb)
• References (PDF - 290 Kb)

Please note: Appendix H is only available online and is not in the printed copy.

• Appendix H DRG-level costs by jurisdiction (XLS - 1306 Kb)
• Appendix H DRG-level costs by hospital size (XLS - 945 Kb)
• Appendix H DRG-level costs by region (XLS - 886 Kb)