Table 1 Demographic characteristics of patients by cancer types before and after public performance reporting (N = 199,885)
|  | Bowel cancer n = 9104 | Breast cancer n = 16,926 | Lung cancer n = 3037 | Bowel, breast and lung cancer n = 29,067 | Other cancer n = 170,818 | |||||
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Pre-PPR n = 4664 | Post-PPR n = 4440 | Pre-PPR n = 7197 | Post-PPR n = 9729 | Pre-PPR n = 1205 | Post-PPR n = 1832 | Pre-PPR n = 13,066 | Post-PPR n = 16,001 | Pre-PPR n = 77,110 | Post-PPR n = 93,708 | |
Sex | ||||||||||
 Male | 2680 (57.5%) | 2580 (58.1%) | 55 (0.8%) | 78 (0.8%) | 685 (56.8%) | 984 (53.7%) | 3420 (26.2%) | 3642 (22.8%) | 36,030 (46.7%) | 44,062 (47.0%) |
 Female | 1984 (42.5%) | 1860 (41.9%) | 7142 (99.2%) | 9651 (99.2%) | 520 (43.2%) | 848 (46.3%) | 9646 (73.8%) | 12,359 (77.2%) | 41,080 (53.3%) | 49,646 (53.0%) |
Age group | ||||||||||
 15–24 | 15 (0.3%) | 8 (0.2%) | 13 (0.2%) | 6 (0.1%) | 2 (0.2%) | 9 (0.5%) | 30 (0.2%) | 23 (0.1%) | 3300 (4.3%) | 3092 (3.3%) |
 25–34 | 34 (0.7%) | 63 (1.4%) | 182 (2.5%) | 240 (2.5%) | 8 (0.7%) | 9 (0.5%) | 224 (1.7%) | 312 (2.0%) | 6530 (8.5%) | 7929 (8.5%) |
 35–44 | 124 (2.7%) | 174 (3.9%) | 874 (12.1%) | 1006 (10.3%) | 28 (2.3%) | 28 (1.5%) | 1026 (7.9%) | 1208 (7.6%) | 8559 (11.1%) | 9725 (10.4%) |
 45–54 | 477 (10.2%) | 497 (11.2%) | 1793 (24.9%) | 2347 (24.1%) | 120 (10.0%) | 147 (8.0%) | 2390 (18.3%) | 2991 (18.7%) | 11,480 (14.9%) | 13,870 (14.8%) |
 55–64 | 1001 (21.5%) | 905 (20.4%) | 1850 (25.7%) | 2457 (25.3%) | 310 (25.7%) | 416 (22.7%) | 3161 (24.1%) | 3778 (23.6%) | 13,516 (17.5%) | 16,393 (17.5%) |
 65–74 | 1515 (32.5%) | 1329 (29.9%) | 1496 (20.8%) | 2275 (23.4%) | 474 (39.3%) | 775 (42.3%) | 3485 (26.7%) | 4379 (27.4%) | 15,217 (19.7%) | 19,432 (20.7%) |
 75–84 | 1254 (26.9%) | 1220 (27.5%) | 788 (10.9%) | 1108 (11.4%) | 255 (21.2%) | 426 (23.3%) | 2297 (17.6%) | 2754 (17.2%) | 13,892 (18.0%) | 16,907 (18.0%) |
 85+ | 244 (5.2%) | 244 (5.5%) | 201 (2.8%) | 290 (3.0%) | 8 (0.7%) | 22 (1.2%) | 453 (3.5%) | 556 (3.5%) | 4646 (6.0%) | 6360 (6.8%) |
Marital status | ||||||||||
 Never married | 475 (10.2%) | 547 (12.3%) | 938 (13.0%) | 1369 (14.1%) | 147 (12.2%) | 261 (14.2%) | 1560 (11.9%) | 2177 (13.6%) | 15,131 (19.6%) | 18,929 (20.2%) |
 Widowed/divorced/separated | 1158 (24.8%) | 1025 (23.1%) | 1871 (26.0%) | 2446 (25.1%) | 258 (21.4%) | 441 (24.1%) | 3287 (25.2%) | 3912 (24.5%) | 16,106 (20.9%) | 18,761 (20.0%) |
 Married/de facto | 3015 (64.6%) | 2849 (64.2%) | 4348 (60.4%) | 5843 (60.1%) | 795 (66.0%) | 1115 (60.9%) | 8158 (62.4%) | 9807 (61.3%) | 45,427 (58.9%) | 55,420 (59.1%) |
 Not stated | 16 (0.3%) | 19 (0.4%) | 40 (0.6%) | 71 (0.7%) | 5 (0.4%) | 15 (0.8%) | 61 (0.5%) | 105 (0.7%) | 446 (0.6%) | 598 (0.6%) |
Preferred language | ||||||||||
 English | 3953 (84.8%) | 3795 (85.5%) | 6383 (88.7%) | 8644 (88.8%) | 1053 (87.4%) | 1603 (87.5%) | 11,389 (87.2%) | 14,042 (87.8%) | 69,037 (89.5%) | 84,286 (89.9%) |
 Others | 711 (15.2%) | 645 (14.5%) | 814 (11.3%) | 1085 (11.2%) | 152 (12.6%) | 229 (12.5%) | 1677 (12.8%) | 1959 (12.2%) | 8073 (10.5%) | 9422 (10.1%) |
Patient type | ||||||||||
 Public | 4327 (92.8%) | 4041 (91.0%) | 6668 (92.6%) | 8598 (88.4%) | 1040 (86.3%) | 1640 (89.5%) | 12,035 (92.1%) | 14,279 (89.2%) | 69,091 (89.6%) | 82,381 (87.9%) |
 Private | 289 (6.2%) | 365 (8.2%) | 494 (6.9%) | 1086 (11.2%) | 140 (11.6%) | 182 (9.9%) | 923 (7.1%) | 1633 (10.2%) | 6702 (8.7%) | 10,344 (11.0%) |
 Othersa | 48 (1.0%) | 34 (0.8%) | 35 (0.5%) | 45 (0.5%) | 25 (2.1%) | 10 (0.5%) | 108 (0.8%) | 89 (0.6%) | 1317 (1.7%) | 983 (1.0%) |
Hospital region | ||||||||||
 Metropolitan | 3488 (74.8%) | 3280 (73.9%) | 5593 (77.7%) | 7461 (76.7%) | 1067 (88.5%) | 1561 (85.2%) | 10,148 (77.7%) | 12,302 (76.8%) | 64,211 (83.3%) | 77,345 (82.5%) |
 Rural | 1176 (25.2%) | 1160 (26.1%) | 1604 (22.3%) | 2268 (23.3%) | 138 (11.5%) | 271 (14.8%) | 2918 (22.3%) | 3699 (23.1%) | 12,899 (16.7%) | 16,363 (17.5%) |
Hospital peer groups [AIHW] | ||||||||||
 Principal referralb | 1576 (33.8%) | 1303 (29.3%) | 2047 (28.4%) | 2478 (25.5%) | 865 (71.8%) | 1382 (75.4%) | 4488 (34.4%) | 5163 (32.3%) | 26,056 (33.8%) | 28,914 (30.9%) |
 Public acute group Ac | 2901 (62.2%) | 2918 (65.7%) | 4218 (58.6%) | 4979 (51.2%) | 340 (28.2%) | 423 (23.1%) | 7459 (57.1%) | 8320 (52.0%) | 32,411 (42.0%) | 36,773 (39.2%) |
 Public acute group Bd | 182 (3.9%) | 93 (2.1%) | 644 (8.9%) | 855 (8.8%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 826 (6.3%) | 948 (5.9%) | 9524 (12.4%) | 10,964 (11.7%) |
 Public acute group Ce | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 166 (2.3%) | 639 (6.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 166 (1.3%) | 639 (4.0%) | 2544 (3.3%) | 4245 (4.5%) |
 Other public acute specialised | 0 (0.0%) | 119 (2.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 397 (4.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 27 (1.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 543 (3.4%) | 876 (1.1%) | 4691 (5.0%) |
 Women’s | 4 (0.1%) | 6 (0.1%) | 122 (1.7%) | 380 (3.9%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 126 (0.9%) | 386 (2.4%) | 5442 (7.1%) | 7525 (8.0%) |
 Children’s | 1 (0.0%) | 1 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.0%) | 1 (0.0%) | 105 (0.1%) | 187 (0.2%) |
 Other day procedure hospital | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.0%) | 152 (0.2%) | 409 (0.4%) |
Length of stay | ||||||||||
 Mean (standard deviation) | 11 (10) | 10 (11) | 3 (4) | 4 (5) | 10 (7) | 9 (8) | 7 (8) | 6 (7) | 3 (6) | 3 (6) |