Admission to hospital for a condition where the hospitalisation could have potentially been prevented through the provision of appropriate individualised preventative health interventions and early disease management usually delivered in primary care and community-based care settings (including by general practitioners, medical specialists, dentists, nurses and allied health professionals).

Number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided into three groups and total: • vaccine-preventable conditions (e.g. tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella). • acute conditions (e.g. ear, nose and throat infections, perforated/bleeding ulcer, pelvic inflammatory disease). • chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes complications, asthma, angina, hypertension, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). • all potentially preventable hospitalisations.

Total population.

Excludes conditions that are preventable predominately through population health interventions, such as those for clean air and water.

Directly age-standardised

By state/territory, Indigenous status, remoteness and PPH category.

National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)

Online at: www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/myhospitals/intersection/quality/apc

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