Peer Group Guidelines
| Principal referal and specialist women's and children's |
A1
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Major city hospitals with >20,000 acute casemix adjusted separations and Regional hospitals with >16,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum
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A2
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Specialised acute women’s and children’s hospitals with >10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum
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Large hospitals |
B1
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Major city acute hospitals treating more than 10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum
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B2
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Regional acute hospitals treating >8,000 acute casemix adjusted separations per annum, and remote hospitals with >5,000 casemix-adjusted separations
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Medium hospitals |
C1
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Medium acute hospitals in Regional and Major city areas treating between 5,000 and 10,000acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum
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C2
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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
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| Small acute hospitals |
D1
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Small Regional acute hospitals (mainly small country town hospitals), acute hospitals treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with less than 40% nonacute and outlier patient days of total patient days
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| Small acute hospitals |
D3
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Small remote hospitals (<5,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations but not 'Multipurpose services' and not 'Small non-acute'. Most are <2,000 separations
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| Small sub-acute and non-acute hospitals |
D2
E2
G
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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 (D2) plus Multipurpose service (E2) – Small sub-acute and non-acute hospitals (G)
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Source: Peer Group Report Round 12 (2007-2008) AR-DRGv5.1, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing pg 4 : http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/AFEAFD8F8A51BEC6CA2576310006CE07/$File/1_R12PeergpREport.pdf
Flowchart for Peer Group allocation (click image for printable pdf version)
Source: Australian Hospital Statistics 2002-03, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare pg 316 - http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/hse/ahs02-03/ahs02-03.pdf