The Admitted Patient Care (APC) domain collects morbidity data on admitted patients from all recognised public and private hospitals in South Australia. The APC is based on the "Admitted Patient Care" National Minimum Data Set (NMDS).

The Admitted Patient Care dataset includes all admitted patient separations (discharges, transfers and deaths) from every South Australian: Public Acute Hospital; Public Psychiatric Hospital; Private Acute Hospital (licensed by SA Health); Private Psychiatric Hospital (licensed by SA Health); and Private Day Surgeries (licensed by Commonwealth). Note that Private separations are currently unavailable for data linkage.

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Administrative. APC is an admitted patient morbidity data collection designed to provide SA Health with the information resources necessary to effectively organise, evaluate and plan health services in South Australia. It also allows SA Health to meet national obligations through submissions to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA), the National Health Performance Authority and the National Health Funding Body.

South Australian state data

Morbidity data is collected under the authority of the Health Care Act 2008. Memorandum of Agreement between University of South Australia and South Australian Department of Health and Wellbeing.