Hospital and patient admissions.
From the AIHW site, the data is generated and updated on this platform weekly.
For admissions where the result was <5, we have converted it to '4'.
An admission refers to the administrative process by which a hospital records the commencement of a new episode of care (stay).
Admissions are presented in the following categories:
Childbirth – defined as stays that have a caesarean delivery or vaginal delivery (with and without operating room procedure) AR-DRG
Surgical – defined as stays that have a surgical AR-DRG
Medical – defined as stays that have a medical AR-DRG
Other acute care – defined as stays that have neither a surgical nor a medical AR-DRG
Surgical, medical and other acute care stays are further divided into ‘emergency’ and ‘other’, based on the recorded urgency of admission – that is, whether an admission was considered to be necessary within 24 hours (emergency) or not (other)
Mental health – defined as stays that include psychiatric care days (prior to 2015–16), or stays that include psychiatric care days or have a mental health care type (2015–16), or stays that have a mental health care type (2016–17)
Rehabilitation care – defined as stays that have a rehabilitation care type
Palliative care – defined as stays that have a palliative care type
Other subacute and non-acute care – defined as stays that have a geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric or maintenance care type.
Explanatory notes
Under integrated North West maternity service arrangements, childbirth admissions reported for North West Regional Hospital from 2013–14 onwards were provided by the North West Private Hospital.
<5 If an admissions count is less than five but greater than zero the value is marked as '<5' and is excluded from the total count.
Data for 2015–16 are not comparable with earlier years.
Data for 2016–17 are not comparable with earlier years.