Statistical Services Branch Technical Reports

Technical Reports

Technical Report #19 Impact of changes to coding of rehabilitation episodes of care
Technical Report #18 Impact of changes to coding palliative care 
Technical Report #17 ACHI Tenth Edition:  Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) 
Technical Report #16

ICD-10-AM Tenth Edition: cataract removal and lens insertion (PDF, 87kB)

Technical Report #15

Trends in reporting of chronic conditions: hypertension and chronic kidney disease (PDF, 117kB)

Technical Report #14

Supplementary codes for chronic conditions: twelve months on (PDF, 158kB)

Technical Report # 13

Data quality issues to be aware of when using the Queensland Perinatal Data Collection to estimate the prevalence of congenital anomalies at birth in Queensland (PDF, 812kB)
Technical Report # 12 A review of the Classification of Hospital-Acquired Diagnoses (CHADx) (PDF, 291kB)
Technical Report # 11 Supplementary techniques to age-standardisation in Indigenous health status reporting (PDF, 111kB) 
Technical Report # 10 A review of the Condition Present on Admission (CPoA) variable (PDF, 343kB)
Technical Report # 9 Impact of changes in diabetes coding on Queensland hospital principal diagnosis morbidity data (PDF, 109kB)
Technical Report # 8 Changes in diabetes coding from the fifth to the sixth and seventh editions of ICD-10-AM (PDF, 134kB)
Technical Report # 7 Accuracy of the ‘mode of separation’ code for patients being transferred out and the ‘source of referral’ code for patients being transferred in to Queensland public hospitals, 2003/2004 to 2007/2008 (PDF, 133kB)
Technical Report # 6 Evaluation of the completion and quality of the Queensland Ambulance Service's eARF numbers in Queensland Health's EDIS and HBCIS databases (PDF, 300kB)
Technical Report # 5 Introduction of reporting of 'Queensland Health selected potentially preventable hospitalisations' (PDF, 109kB)
Technical Report # 4 Technical notes on compliance with the maternal height and weight measures (at time of conception) included in the Queensland Perinatal Data Collection (QPDC) from July 2007 (PDF, 130kB)
Technical Report # 3 Indigenous identification in administrative data collections and the implications for reporting Indigenous health status (PDF, 109kB)
Technical Report # 2 Measuring Indigenous perinatal outcomes - should we use the Indigenous status of the mother, father or baby/ (PDF, 135kB)
Technical Report # 1 Technical notes on QH_CONG_ANOM: Congenital anomalies in terminations of pregnancy at less than 20 weeks gestation (114kB)

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Statistical Analysis Reports

Analysis Report # 3 An estimate of the extent of under-registration of births in Queensland (PDF,177kB)
Analysis Report # 2 A multivariate approach to the disparity in perinatal outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women, Queensland (PDF, 626kB)
Analysis Report # 1 Congenital Anomalies In Queensland: 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2010 (PDF, 311kB)

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Emergency Department Data Reports

Technical Report #11 Digit preference bias in the recording of times in emergency department data in Queensland, 2012 (PDF, 199kB)
Technical Report #10 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Coding of diagnosis department data for selected conditions, 2010/11 (PDF, 260kB)
Technical Report # 9 Variation in reported practice in Queensland hospitals: Patients admitted through the emergency department who are discharged home and do not leave the emergency department for the duration of their hospital stay - The ED Cohort - 2007/08 update (PDF, 169kB)
Technical Report # 8 Variation in reported practice in Queensland hospitals: Patients admitted through the emergency department who are discharged home and do not leave the emergency department for the duration of their hospital stay - The ED Cohort 2005/06 (PDF, 144kB)
Technical Report # 7 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Quality of vital signs data in the EDIS database (PDF, 180kB)
Technical Report # 6 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Admissions originating in the emergency department 2007/08 update (PDF, 107kB)
Technical Report # 5 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Admissions originating in the emergency department 2005/06 (PDF, 110kB)
Technical Report # 4 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Use of triage categories 2007/08 update (PDF, 129kB)
Technical Report # 3 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Use of triage categories 2005/06 (PDF, 123kB)
Technical Report # 2 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Data quality issues in emergency department data 2007/08 update (PDF, 157kB)
Technical Report # 1 Data quality issues impacting on reporting on presentations to emergency departments in Queensland hospitals: Data quality issues in emergency department data 2005/06 update (PDF, 151kB)

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Last updated: 1 March 2016