| Description | Cumulative counts of episodes of care for Queensland Public Acute Hospitals by financial year. | |
| Definition | An episode of care is a phase of treatment. There may be more than one episode of care within the one hospital stay. An episode of care ends when the principal clinical intent changes or when the patient is formally separated from the facility. Acute, Rehabilitation, Palliative, Geriatric Evaluation and Management, Psychogeriatric, Maintenance, Other Care and Qualified Newborn episodes of care are included. | |
| Terminology | Admitted patient episode of care' usually refers to the entire hospital stay of a patient. However, on some occasions patients receive more than one type of care and separate episodes of care are counted. | |
| Source | Current financial year: Monthly Activity Collection Previous financial years: Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection |
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| Timeliness | Data are generally available 28 days after the completion of the reference month. If a hospital has not provided their data electronically before that time, then the monthly data for that hospital are imputed by an estimation process |
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Note that districts that are comprised of only top-28 Hospitals will not appear in the 'District Totals for Non-Top 28 Hospitals' category. Totals for these districts will appear in the 'District Totals' category.
Last updated: 14 September, 2007
Last Reviewed: September, 2007