Percentage of patients who selected the options 1 to 2; 3 to 5; More than 5; Don't know/can't remember in response to the question In the three months after your discharge from the hospital, how many in-person appointments have you had with a hospital outpatient clinic?

The number of survey respondents who selected the options 1 to 2; 3 to 5; More than 5; Don't know/can't remember.

The number of survey respondents who selected any of the response options to the question, minus exclusions.

Response: 'Don't know/can't remember'

For the Adult Admitted Patient Survey 2022, BHI has improved the benchmarks in weighting the data to ensure results are more representative of the eligible population across peer groups, hospitals and strata of sampling within hospitals. Within each hospital, sampling and weighting are stratified into eight strata, comprising two age groups (18–49 years and 50+ years), two separation groups (admitted same day and overnight) and two Aboriginality groups (Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, and non-Aboriginal). Prior to weighting, stratum cells with no respondents are combined with adjoining strata. The weights are then adjusted to marginal benchmarks through the generalised regression weighting macro (GREGWT), a survey-specific SAS program developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to assist with weighting of complex survey data. This program uses iterative proportional fitting to ensure that the weights at the margins equal the population totals even though it is often impossible for the weights to equal the population at the individual cell level (i.e., within each hospital and stratum).

Each hospital is defined as a stratum. Within each hospital, patients are further stratified by Age group: 18–49 years or 50+ years, and Stay type: same-day or overnight admission.

Data is collected from the Adult Admitted Patient Survey. This is mailed out to a sample of patients aged 18+ years, discharged from a NSW public hospital between January and December 2021. Patients are eligible if the last 'episode of care' for their most recent hospital stay in a sampling month was for acute or rehabilitation care. Excludes patients who died during their hospital admission; received Acute Post-Acute Care (APAC) hospital-in-the-home services; admitted to a psychiatric unit during any hospital stay during the sampling month; treated for maltreatment syndromes; intentionally self-harmed, or presented with sequelae of intentional self-harm; an unspecified event or undetermined intent; suicidal ideation; family history of other mental and behavioural disorders; a personal history of self-harm; admitted for same-day haemodialysis; same-day patients who stayed for less than three hours; same-day patients transferred to another hospital and sampled in the previous six months for any BHI patient survey. Sampling frame is based on data from NSW Health's Health Information Exchange Admitted Patient Data Collection (APDC). Targets of monthly sampling (sample size) for each facility are calculated based on data from the previous year. Selected patients are invited to complete the questionnaire by either returning the hard-copy questionnaire or by submitting an online response.

Not reported on Bureau of Health Information data portal.

www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/BHIreports/patientsurveyresults/adult-admitted-patient-survey-2022 Reported on: www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/BHIreports/patientsurveyresults/adult-admitted-patient-survey-2022 www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdffile/0006/907359/BHIAAPS2022Snapshot.pdf www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/data-portal

Adult Admitted Patient Survey 2022 Technical Supplement: www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdffile/0008/907361/BHIAAPS2022TECH_SUPP.pdf

www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/nswpatientsurvey_program#currentQuestionnaires