Publicly funded hospital discharges – 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

Summary

This statistical information contains national data in tabular form, detailing the numbers of publicly funded patients discharged, diagnoses and numbers of procedures carried out in both public and private hospitals.

The statistical information highlights the following facts:

Publicly funded hospital discharges

Number of hospital discharges, total population

• In 2007/08 there were 933,143 publicly funded hospital discharges
• Inpatient hospitalisations (618,570) were 66.3 percent of total discharges with the remaining 314,573 discharged as daycases.
• Females accounted for 55.8 percent of 2007/08 hospital inpatient discharges

Number of hospital discharges, Maori population

• Discharges for Maori (153,523) accounted for 16.5 percent of total discharges in 2007/08
• Maori inpatient hospitalisations (99,275) were 64.7 percent of total Maori discharges
• Maori female hospitalisations were 57.2 percent of total discharges for Maori in 2007/08

Publicly funded hospital discharges by age

• Of total publicly funded discharges, children aged from 0–4 years were the largest group (133,922 or 14.4 percent of total discharges) followed by 75–79 year olds (59,022 or 6.3 percent of total discharges)
• Of publicly funded discharges for Maori, children aged between 0–4 years were the largest group (32,805 or 21.4 percent of total Maori discharges) followed by the 20–24 year age group at 13,292 or 8.7 percent of total Maori discharges)

Age-standardised rates for publicly funded hospital discharges

• The age-standardised discharge rate for the total population was 20395.6 per 100,000 population
• The age-standardised discharge rate for Maori was 25900.8 per 100,000 Maori population

Hospital cases involving injury and poisoning

Total population

• For the total population there were 158,912 publicly funded discharges involving injury and poisoning in 2007/08
• Males accounted for 53.7 percent of these cases

Maori population

• There were 23,162 discharges for Maori in 2007/08 involving injury and poisoning
• Males accounted for 57.9 percent of injury cases for Maori

Age-standardised rates for publicly funded discharges involving injury and poisoning

• The age-standardised discharge rate for the total population was 3284.7 per 100,000 population
• The age-standardised discharge rate for Maori was 3961.6 per 100,000 Maori population

Total numbers of publicly funded procedures undertaken in hospitals

• In 2007/08 there were 1,249,255 publicly funded procedures undertaken in hospitals
• Females accounted for 55.7 percent of 2007/08 procedures
• 34.1 percent (425,967) of all procedures were undertaken as daycases.