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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

OECD health care quality indicators for Australia

OECD health-care quality indicators for Australia 2015 has recently been released by the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare. The report compares data supplied by Australia to the OECD in 2015 to previous years and to other OECD countries.  Categories for indicator comparison are avoidable hospital separations, acute care, cancer care, patient safety and patient experience.  Areas where Australia performed above average included hypertension hospital separations, acute myocardial infarction mortality and postoperative pulmonary embolism rates. Areas where Australia performed below average included COPD hospital separations and postoperative sepsis rates.
 

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