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Cost weighted episodes of care

Description Monthly weighted separations for Queensland Public Acute Hospitals. Data are only available for the top 28 Hospitals.  
Definition

Cost weighted episodes of care provide a better means of comparing the cost of admitted patient services across hospitals than a simple count of episodes of care.

This is because a simple count of the number of patients seen at hospitals fails to recognise that different Hospitals can be treating quite different mixes of patients in terms of the nature of their illnesses and the complexity and cost of their treatments.

Cost weights are only allocated to acute separations (including qualified newborns). Queensland Health Public Hospital Cost Benchmarking (2004/05) weights have been assigned to these acute seperations.

 
Source Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection  
Timeliness Data are generally available 2 months after the completion of the reference month.  

Select and click on one area or top-28 Hospital from the following groups (click on the bars of the graphs to access the data):


Download data as EXCEL spreadsheet


Last updated: 17 September, 2007
Last Reviewed: September 2007