Data definitions for auditing

Healthcare Worker Type Categories

Department Type Categories

Department Type	Further Definitions
Acute Aged Care	Unit providing predominantly acute geriatric medical care
Ambulatory Care	Out-patient clinic/treatment
Critical Care Unit	Includes Coronary Care, Adult and Paediatric Intensive Care Units, High Dependency Unit
Dental
Emergency Department	Purposely designed and equipped area with designated assessment, treatment and resuscitation areas. Ability to provide resuscitation, stabilisation and initial management of all emergencies. Availability of medical staff in the hospital 24 hours a day. Designated emergency department nursing staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and a designated emergency department nursing unit manager.
Emergency Services
Long-term Care	Includes residential care for adults and children, and transition wards for  patients awaiting long-term care placement
Maternity	Delivery suite, maternity ward
Medical	Includes dermatology, neurology, respiratory etc
Mental Health
Mixed
Neonatal Care	Includes Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Special Care Nursery
Oncology/Haematology Unit	Includes Day Oncology
Other	If not defined within the other categories
Paediatrics	Children’s Wards of Non-paediatric hospitals
Palliative
Peri-operative	Includes pre-operative units, theatre and recovery/post-anaesthesia care unit
Radiology/Radiation Oncology	Medical imaging, including nuclear medicine and interventional radiology units, radiation oncology
Renal	Includes dialysis
Sub Acute	Includes rehab, geriatric evaluation and management
Surgical	General and specialty surgical wards, including orthopaedics, neurosurgery, urology, ENT, opthalmology etc
Transplantation Unit

Public Peer Group Categories - Post 2015

Peer group name	Definition
Principal referral hospitals	Principal referral hospitals are public acute hospitals that provide a very broad range of services, have a range of highly specialised service units, and have very large patient volumes. The term ‘referral’ recognises that these hospitals have specialist facilities not typically found in smaller hospitals.
Group A hospitals	Public acute group A hospitals are public acute hospitals that provide a wide range of services typically including a 24-hour emergency department, intensive care unit, coronary care unit and oncology unit, but do not provide the breadth of services provided by Principal referral hospitals. Private acute group A hospitals are private acute hospitals that have a 24-hour emergency department and an intensive care unit, and provide a number of other specialised services such as coronary care, special care nursery, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery.
Group B hospitals	Public acute group B hospitals are those public acute hospitals that do not have the service profile of the Principal referral hospitals and Group A hospitals, but do have a 24-hour emergency department; they typically provide elective surgery and have specialised service units such as obstetric, paediatric and psychiatric units. Private acute group B hospitals are private acute hospitals that do not have a 24-hour emergency department, but do have an intensive care unit and a number of other specialised services including coronary care, special care nursery, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery
Group C hospitals	Public acute group C hospitals include those public acute hospitals that provide a more limited range of services than Principal referral hospitals or Public acute group A and B hospitals, but do have an obstetric unit, provide surgical services and/or some form of emergency facility (emergency department, or accident and emergency service). Private acute group C hospitals are those private acute hospitals that do not provide emergency department services or have an intensive care unit, but do provide specialised services in a range of clinical specialities.
Group D hospitals	Public acute group D hospitals are acute public hospitals that offer a smaller range of services relative to the other public acute hospital groups, and provide 200 or more separations per year. They are mostly situated in regional and remote areas. Private acute group C hospitals are those private acute hospitals that do not provide emergency department services or have an intensive care unit, but do provide specialised services in a range of clinical specialities.
Very small hospitals	Very small hospitals have few beds and provide care for few admitted patients. Most do not perform surgery.
Children's hospitals	Children’s hospitals which specialise in the treatment and care of children
Women's hospitals	Women’s hospitals which specialise in the treatment of women
Other women's and children's hospitals	Combined women’s and children’s hospitals which specialise in the treatment of both women and children.
Acute psychiatric hospitals	Acute hospitals that specialise in providing mental health services for people with a mental disorder or psychiatric disability, including some that primarily provide mental health services for specific population groups.
Other acute specialised hospitals	Other acute specialised hospitals are hospitals that specialise in a particular form of acute care, not grouped elsewhere.
Rehabilitation hospitals	Rehabilitation hospitals are hospitals that primarily provide rehabilitation and/or geriatric evaluation and management.
Mixed sub- and non-acute hospitals	Mixed sub- and non-acute hospitals primarily provide a mixture of subacute (rehabilitation, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric care) and non-acute (maintenance) care
Dialysis clinics	Dialysis clinics are hospitals that specialise in providing dialysis treatment on a same day basis.
Endoscopy centres	Endoscopy centres are hospitals that specialise in providing endoscopic procedures on a same day basis.
Eye surgery clinic	Eye surgery centres are hospitals that specialise in providing eye surgery on a same day basis.
Haematology & oncology clinics	Haematology and oncology clinics are hospitals that specialise in providing medical care on a same day basis for cancer patients and/or patients with blood disorders.
Mixed day procedure hospitals	Mixed day procedure hospitals are day hospitals that do not meet the service profile of any specialised day hospital peer groups described above and Other specialist day hospitals (see Other specialist day hospitals section below). Rather than having a strong focus on one specialised clinical area, these hospitals typically provide a variety of specialised services on a same day basis
Oral & maxillofacial procedure centres	Oral and maxillofacial surgery centres are hospitals that specialise in providing treatment of oral and maxillofacial diseases and disorders on a same day basis.
Plastic & reconstructive surgery clinics	Plastic and reconstructive surgery centres are hospitals that specialise in providing reconstructive and plastic surgery on a same day basis.
Reproductive health centres	Reproductive health centres are hospitals that specialise in providing abortion services on a same day basis.
Unpeered hospitals	Unpeered hospitals are those hospitals with unique characteristics that could not be assigned to one of the peer groups.
Pending	Awaiting allocation to peer group from AIHW.

Public Peer Groups Categories - Pre 2015

Private Peer Groups

Day Hospital Definitions

Dialysis/Oncology Definitions

Size	Number of procedures
Large	Stand alone facility performing >5,000 procedures per annum
Small	Stand alone facility performing <5,000 procedures per annum