The Insights Series
Exploring clinical variation in mortality – Mortality following hospitalisation, seven clinical conditions, NSW, July 2012 – June 2015
Released: 12 April 2017
This report presents risk-standardised mortality rates for seven clinical conditions in NSW, and across 75 public hospitals. Measures that assess how healthcare affects patient outcomes such as mortality and readmission make a crucial contribution to performance evaluation. When appropriately risk adjusted, they can point to unwarranted clinical variation.
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- Armidale and New England Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Auburn Hospital (1.1 MB PDF)
- Bankstown / Lidcombe Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Bateman's Bay District Hospital (1.0 MB PDF)
- Bathurst Base Hospital (1.1 MB PDF)
- Ballina District Hospital (1008.4 KB PDF)
- Belmont Hospital (1.1 MB PDF)
- Blacktown Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital (1.0 MB PDF)
- Bowral and District Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Broken Hill Base Hospital (1021.8 KB PDF)
- Calvary Mater Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Cambelltown Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Canterbury Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Casino and District Memorial Hospital (1.0 MB PDF)
- Cessnock District Hospital (1017.2 KB PDF)
- Coffs Harbour Base Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Concord Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Cooma Health Service (992.5 KB PDF)
- Cowra District Hospital (858.3 KB PDF)
- Deniliquin Health Service (983.3 KB PDF)
- Dubbo Base Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Fairfield Hospital (1.1 MB PDF)
- Forbes District Hospital (811.9 KB PDF)
- Gosford Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Goulburn Base Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Grafton Base Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Griffith Base Hospital (1.1 MB PDF)
- Gunnedah District Hospital (675.3 KB PDF)
- Hornsby and Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Inverell District Hospital (1005.7 KB PDF)
- John Hunter Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Kempsey Hospital (1000.8 KB PDF)
- Lismore Base Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Lithgow Health Service (1009.4 KB PDF)
- Liverpool Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Macksville District Hospital (872.1 KB PDF)
- Maclean District Hospital (1015.2 KB PDF)
- Maitland Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Manly District Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Manning Base Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Milton and Ulladulla Hospital (1020.2 KB PDF)
- Mona Vale and District Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Moree District Hospital (667.6 KB PDF)
- Moruya District Hospital (1022.4 KB PDF)
- Mount Druitt Hospital (1014.4 KB PDF)
- Mudgee District Hospital (1002.6 KB PDF)
- Murwillumbah District Hospital (1010.1 KB PDF)
- Muswellbrook District Hospital (718.6 KB PDF)
- Narrabri District Hospital (814.9 KB PDF)
- Nepean Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Orange Health Service (1.4 MB PDF)
- Parkes District Hospital (996.4 KB PDF)
- Port Macquarie Base Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Prince of Wales Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Queanbeyan Health Service (1022.5 KB PDF)
- Royal North Shore Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Ryde Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Shellharbour Hospital (1.1 MB PDF)
- Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Singleton District Hospital (856.3 KB PDF)
- South East Regional Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- St George Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst (1.5 MB PDF)
- Sutherland Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital (688.4 KB PDF)
- Tamworth Base Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- The Tweed Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Tumut Health Service (837.0 KB PDF)
- Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital (1.5 MB PDF)
- Westmead Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Wollongong Hospital (1.4 MB PDF)
- Wyong Hospital (1.3 MB PDF)
- Young Health Service (958.5 KB PDF)
Local Health Districts
- Central Coast Local Health District (225.6 KB PDF)
- Far West Local Health District (166.1 KB PDF)
- Hunter New England Local Health District (749.0 KB PDF)
- Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (293.3 KB PDF)
- Mid North Coast Local Health District (310.2 KB PDF)
- Murrumbidgee Local Health District (366.4 KB PDF)
- Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (288.4 KB PDF)
- Northern NSW Local Health District (431.6 KB PDF)
- Northern Sydney Local Health District (373.1 KB PDF)
- South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (327.3 KB PDF)
- South Western Sydney Local Health District (350.0 KB PDF)
- Southern NSW Local Health District (446.0 KB PDF)
- St Vincent’s Health Network (168.6 KB PDF)
- Sydney Local Health District (249.9 KB PDF)
- Western NSW Local Health District (1.0 MB PDF)
- Western Sydney Local Health District (287.0 KB PDF)
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