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Two New Reports from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

11/12/2011 7:21:32 PM

The reports deal with emergency department care and elective surgery waiting times and staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Australian public hospitals.

  

Australian hospital statistics 2010-2011: emergency department care and elective surgery waiting times
Australian hospital statistics 2010-11: emergency department care and elective surgery waiting times' presents information relating to emergency department care in major public hospitals and public hospital elective surgery waiting times for the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011. In 2010-11: over 6.2 million emergency department presentations were provided by major public hospitals, with 70% of patients receiving treatment within an appropriate time for their urgency (triage category); about 621,000 patients were admitted to Australian public hospitals from waiting lists for elective surgery, with 50% of patients admitted within 36 days.

AIHW catalogue number (HSE115).
Available from CanPrint for $25.00 (1300 889 873).

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Australian hospital statistics 2010-2011: staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Australian public hospitals
In 2010-11: all states and territories had rates of hospital-associated SAB below the national benchmark with rates ranging from 0.9 to 1.4 cases per 10, 000 patient days; there were 1,873 cases of hospital-associated SAB reported for Australia. The reported SAB cases occurred during approximately 17 million days of patient care.

AIHW catalogue number (HSE117).
Available from CanPrint for $17.50 (1300 889 873).

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