Definitions

Publicly-funded discharges: Publicly funded hospital events at public or private hospitals. When a patient is discharged from hospital, a clinical coder will assign an ICD code for the diagnosis and one for external cause of morbidity or mortality (if it applies).

Procedures: Hospital procedures. Codes are assigned using ACHI (Australian Classification of Health Interventions).

Age group: 5-year age group (in years) at time of discharge.

Data provided by

Ministry of Health

Dataset name

National Minimum Dataset: Publicly Funded Hospital Discharges - Static tables by age and sex 2017

Webpage:

https://www.health.govt.nz/publication/publicly-funded-hospital-discharges-1-july-2016-30-june-2017

How to find the data

At URL provided, under Downloads, select 'Static tables: Publicly funded hospital discharges' file.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: National Minimum Dataset: Publicly Funded Hospital Discharges - Static tables by age and sex 2017

From the dataset National Minimum Dataset: Publicly Funded Hospital Discharges - Static tables by age and sex 2017 , this data was extracted:

Sheet: Discharges - All

Range: C9:W6678

Provided: 93,423 data points

This data forms the table Health - Publicly funded hospital discharges by primary diagnosis, by age and sex 2017.

Dataset originally released on:

October 02, 2019

About this dataset

This dataset contains summarised data showing publicly funded hospital discharges and procedures by DHB, ethnic group, sex, age group and disease/procedure classification.

Method of collection/Data provider