Comparing National Public Hospital Cost Data Collections for use in Performance Reporting by Ms Jenny Watts, Professor Jeff Richardson and Dr Leonie Segal, was released in September 2000.

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Contents

Preliminaries
Cover, Title Page, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents

Synopsis 1   Introduction
1.1   Measuring Hospital Costs
1.2   The Problem

2   Current Measures of Hospital Costs
2.1   Overview of the Two Data Systems
2.2   AIHW Methodology
Sample
Data Type
Methodology/Calculation
2.3   NHCDC Method for Calculating DRG Average Costs
Sample
Data Type
Methodology
2.4   Strengths and Weaknesses of the Two Models

3   Other Issues in Data Consistency
3.1   Introduction
3.2   Capital/Depreciation
3.3   Treatment of Private Medical Costs
3.4   Labour On-costs/Superannuation
3.5   Cost Modelling and Patient Level Clinical Costing Data
3.6   Issues in Identifying the Acute Inpatient Population
3.7   Provision of Costing Data by Small Rural Hospitals

4   Purpose of Hospital Efficiency and Costing Data

5   Summary

6   Recommendations

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