Publication date:
2 October 2019
Summary
These tables contain summarised data showing privately funded hospital discharges and procedures by DHB, sex, age group and disease/procedure classification. The same data is available in multiple formats:
- Static tables: Formatted tables so you can view national data easily and read the key findings.
- Pivot tables: Flexible tables that you can filter, manipulate and transform to do further analyses. DHB breakdowns are available in this format.
- Data tables: Zip file package containing text files of the underlying data used in the pivot and static tables and a data dictionary.
The ‘Help’ sheet in the pivot tables file includes help on:
- how to choose the right file to use
- the differences between discharges and procedures
- how to find the right clinical or procedure codes
- how to get the number of hospital discharges associated with a condition
- how to get the number of people on which a particular procedure was performed.
Key findings
Privately funded hospital discharges in 2016/17
- More than 100,000 privately funded hospital discharges were reported in 2016/17; an age-standardised rate of 17.2 hospitalisations per 1000 people.
- Over half of hospital discharges were for females (54%).
- The age-standardised rate among females was 19% higher than among males (18.7 per 1000 females compared with 15.7 per 1000 males).
- Discharges among those aged 65 years and over accounted for 36% of all male discharges and 29% of all female discharges.
- Age-specific rates among females of child-bearing age (15–44 years) were 1.7–1.9 times that of their male counterparts.
Privately funded hospital procedures in 2016/17
- More than 200,000 privately funded hospital procedures were reported in 2016/17; an age-standardised rate of 36.1 procedures per 1000 people.
- Over half of hospital procedures were for females (56%).
- The age-standardised rate among females was 28% higher than among males (40.5 per 1000 females compared with 31.5 per 1000 males).
- Procedures performed on those aged 65 years and over accounted for 32% of all procedures performed on males and 24% of all procedures performed on females.
- Age-specific rates of procedures performed on females of child-bearing age (15–44 years) were 1.8–2.1 times that performed on their male counterparts.
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Owned by the Ministry of Health and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.