Welcome to the new BHI website. During its staged implementation, earlier reports not available on this site can be accessed on the old website.

Return to acute care following hospitalisation, Insights into readmissions, NSW public hospitals

July 2009 to June 2012

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.

Released: 24 June 2015


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Individual hospital profiles

See detailed results for 75 individual public hospitals.

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New measure sheds light on why patients return to hospital

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Other reports in this series

Readmission and returns to acute care following hospitalisation for eight clinical conditions, July 2015 – June 2018

This report provides the community and health professionals with information about the performance of 74 public hospitals for eight clinical conditions, including three surgical procedures.

Released: 27 November 2019

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Exploring clinical variation in readmission - Return to acute care following discharge from hospital, eight clinical conditions, NSW, July 2012 – June 2015

This report presents risk-standardised readmission rates for eight clinical conditions in NSW, and across 79 public hospitals.

Released: 12 April 2017

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