Skip to main content

Table 4 Patient summary results

From: Accuracy and completeness of patient pathways – the benefits of national data linkage in Australia

Linkage Results - Summary

NSW

WA

SA

QLD

Total

Number of individuals:

     
 

Identified from Hospital and Death records

5,796,784

1,558,999

848,446

3,995,812

11,954,874

Hospital events within individual groups:

     
 

Number of individuals hospitalised

5,782,670

1,554,313

833,781

3,979,562

11,907,114

 

Singleton hospital recordsa

2,598,149

544,484

433,277

1,831,768

5,407,678

 

%

44.9 %

35.0 %

52.0 %

46.0 %

45.4 %

 

Maximum number of hospital records

2,297

2,245

2,393

2,393

2,393

 

Average group sizeb

5.4

6.2

5.2

5.9

5.9

  1. aIndividuals who only have one hospital record in their group
  2. bSingletons are not included in the total number of individuals for this calculation