Description of state and Australian government datasets
| Dataset | Abbreviation | Description |
| Queensland health datasets | ||
| Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection | QHAPDC | A summary of every inpatient episode of care in all Queensland public and private hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals |
| Emergency Department Information System/Emergency Data Collection | EDIS/EDC | The information system provides data on admissions to public emergency departments |
| Specialist Outpatient Data Collection | SODC | Outpatient services where the clinic is led by a specialist health practitioner |
| Queensland Death Register | QDR | Information about deaths occurring in Queensland |
| Rheumatic Heart Disease Register | RHD Register | A register of Queensland residents diagnosed with ARF and RHD, including diagnosis, hospitalisations, compliance with prophylactic antibiotics, clinical progress, surgery and deaths |
| RHD Enhanced Surveillance Database | RHD ESD | Records data of active cases and identifies true and false positives from hospital admissions, and checks whether RHD positives are on the RHD Register. |
| Ferret | Ferret | Primary healthcare PIRS using demographic and clinical data to develop individual life-long healthcare plans |
| Best Practice Primary Healthcare Database | BP | A PIRS as above for health services that do not use Ferret |
| Queensland Laboratory | AusLab | Provides records of pathology tests undertaken as well as results |
| National Hospital Costing Data Collection | NHCDC | Data about the average cost of delivering activities to patients at national and state levels, including emergency department and inpatient activity |
| Costing Funding Values | CFV | Provides clinical costing data for each HHS |
| Australian government datasets | ||
| Medicare Benefits Scheme | MBS | Medical and hospital services for which a rebate is payable by the government |
| Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme | PBS | Government subsidised medicines and those free to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people |
| National Death Index | NDI | Information about deaths occurring in Australia, including coded cause of death |
ARF, acute rheumatic fever; HHS, hospital and health service; PIRS, patient information and recall system; RHD, rheumatic heart disease.