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Rural Hospital Adult Admitted Patient Survey

This survey asks people who have been admitted to a small, rural public hospital in NSW to share their experiences of care. The Rural Hospital Adult Admitted Patient Survey was previously known as the Small and Rural Hospitals Survey.

BHI collects and reports on these experiences so that healthcare professionals and system managers can use the results to see where services are performing well and where there is room to improve.


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Healthcare in rural, regional and remote NSW

This report assesses healthcare services provided to patients in urban and rural areas of NSW. It does so using some 100 measures based on information including hospital records, ED datasets and patient survey results.

Released: 10 November 2016

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Technical Supplement

Detailed information about the sampling methodology, data management and analysis related to the latest survey results.

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Data Portal

Find and compare detailed results showing activity and performance for the NSW healthcare system, including trends over time

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Healthcare system in rural and remote NSW is performing strongly

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Questionnaires and technical documents

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Sample questionnaire, 2015

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Development report, 2015

Summarises changes to the latest survey and includes information about stakeholder consultation and engagement, and sampling methodology.

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Development report appendices, 2015

Additional information outlining development of questionnaire and sampling methodology.

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To see current questionnaires in the field, click here

Other results

Adults admitted to rural hospitals – Results from the 2019–20 patient survey

These results reflect the experiences of 4,487 adult patients admitted to one of 98 small, rural public hospitals in NSW from July 2019 to June 2020.

Released: 9 June 2021

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Adults admitted to rural hospitals – the 2016 survey

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