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Data Element Detail

Facility-hospital peer group (AHS)
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 041893 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Current
01-Jul-2008		Superseded
30-Jun-2012
Standard
01-Jul-2008
30-Jun-2012
Identifies the peer group assigned to a hospital, as reported in the annual Australian Hospital Statistics (AHS) publication.
Public hospitals
Hospital peer group (AHS)
Representational Attributes
Alphanumeric
Code
A[N]
1
2
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

CodeDescription
A1Principal referral
A2Specialist women's and children's
B1Large major cities
B2Large regional and remote
C1Medium (group 1)
C2Medium (group 2)
D1Small regional acute
D2Small non-acute
D3Small remote acute
E2Multi-purpose services
E3Hospices
E4Rehabilitation
E5Mothercraft
E9Other non-acute
FPsychiatric
GUnpeered and other
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

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Collection and Usage Attributes
The AHS is published annually by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Public hospital peer groups are used to present data on costs per casemix-adjusted separation. It aims to allow meaningful comparison of hospital data than comparison at the jurisdiction level would allow.

AHS peer group code definitions:

PRINCIPAL REFERRAL AND SPECIALIST WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS:
Code A1 Principal referral
Major city hospitals with >20,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations, and Regional hospitals with >16,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum.

Code A2 Specialist women's and children's
Specialised acute women's and children's hospitals with >10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum.

LARGE HOSPITALS:
Code B1 Large major cities
Major city acute hospitals treating more than 10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum.

Code B2 Large regional and remote
Regional acute hospitals treating >8,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum, and Remote hospitals with >5,000 casemix-adjusted separations.

MEDIUM HOSPITALS:
Code C1 Medium (group 1)
Medium acute hospitals in Regional and Major city areas treating between 5,000 and 10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum.

Code C2 Medium (group 2)
Medium acute hospitals in Regional and Major city areas treating between 2,000 and 5,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum, and acute hospitals treating <2,000 casemix-adjusted separations per annum but with >2,000 separations per annum.

SMALL ACUTE HOSPITALS:
Code D1 Small regional acute
Small Regional acute hospitals (mainly small country town hospitals), acute hospitals treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with less than 40% non-acute and outlier patient days of total patient days.

Code D3 Small remote acute
Small Remote hospitals (<5,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations but not 'multi-purpose services' and not 'small non-acute'). Most are <2,000 separations.

SUB-ACUTE AND NON-ACUTE HOSPITALS:
Code D2 Small non-acute
Small non-acute hospitals, treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with more than 40% non-acute and outlier patient days of total patient days.

Code E2 Multi-purpose services
Code E3 Hospices
Code E4 Rehabilitation
Code E5 Mothercraft

Code E9 Other non-acute
For example, geriatric treatment centres combining rehabilitation and palliative care, with a small number of acute patients.

PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS:
Code F Psychiatric hospitals

UNPEERED AND OTHER HOSPITALS:
Code G Un-peered and other
Prison medical services, dental hospitals, special circumstance hospitals, Major city hospitals with <2,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations, hospitals with <200 separations etc.
Corporate Reference Data System (CRDS) Facility data set: May be blank.
Corporate Reference Data System (CRDS) Facility data set:
Attribute type is PEERAHS (Peer group - Australian Hospital Statistics).
Approved through information management governance 16/09/2015.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Has been superseded byData ElementData ElementFacility-Australian hospital peer groupQH 041893 Version 2Current
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementFacility (CRDS)-attribute assigned to facility end dateQH 041879 Version 1Current
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementFacility (CRDS)-attribute assigned to facility start dateQH 041878 Version 1Current
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptFacilityQH 041826 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptFacility attributeQH 041858 Version 1Current
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionCorporate Reference Data System (CRDS) - Facility Data SetQH 020271 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-200830-Jun-2012
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Hospital Statistics from 2008-09 to 2011-12
Peer group;