Administrative data collection containing morbidity data on admitted patients from all public hospitals in Tasmania. Contains demographic, administrative and clinical data for each admitted patient separation.

Contains all patient episodes where the episode of care took place within or was contracted by a Tasmanian public facility. This includes patients who had their care contracted out to private providers of relevant services. In these instances the episode activity is recorded on both public and private provider systems. The data also includes all activity where the patient admission category is defined as Hospital Boarder. Hospital Boarders are defined as “A person who is receiving food and/or accommodation but for whom the hospital does not accept responsibility for treatment and/or care.”

Excluded from this dataset during the 2019/20 financial year onward are those admitted episodes which originated in the Emergency Department and subsequently concluded their episode of care having not left the Emergency Department. These patients are classified as ED Only Admits and are excluded from the Admitted Patient Care Data Collection as the episode took place entirely within the Emergency Department.

It should be noted that Admitted Patient Mental Health Patient Care activity is also included in this collection.

Diagnosis codes are only allocated to each episode of care when its relevant for that episode of care. That is, if a patient has a long standing chronic condition and it has no impact on that care required for an episode of care then it will not be coded.

Administrative. The Public Hospital Admitted Patients data collection is an admitted patient morbidity data collection designed to provide the Tasmanian Department of Health (DoH) with the information resources necessary to effectively organise, evaluate and plan health services in Tasmania. It also allows the Tasmanian DoH to meet national obligations through submissions to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) and the National Health Funding Body (NHFB).

Tasmanian state data

All hospitals operate within the framework of the Tasmanian Health Service Act 2018, and which commenced on 1 July 2018 and established new governance arrangements for the Tasmanian Health Service.