Table 1

Description of state and Australian government datasets

DatasetAbbreviationDescription
Queensland health datasets
Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data CollectionQHAPDCA summary of every inpatient episode of care in all Queensland public and private hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals
Emergency Department Information System/Emergency Data CollectionEDIS/EDCThe information system provides data on admissions to public emergency departments
Specialist Outpatient Data CollectionSODCOutpatient services where the clinic is led by a specialist health practitioner
Queensland Death RegisterQDRInformation about deaths occurring in Queensland
Rheumatic Heart Disease RegisterRHD RegisterA register of Queensland residents diagnosed with ARF and RHD, including diagnosis, hospitalisations, compliance with prophylactic antibiotics, clinical progress, surgery and deaths
RHD Enhanced Surveillance DatabaseRHD ESDRecords data of active cases and identifies true and false positives from hospital admissions, and checks whether RHD positives are on the RHD Register.
FerretFerretPrimary healthcare PIRS using demographic and clinical data to develop individual life-long healthcare plans
Best Practice Primary Healthcare DatabaseBPA PIRS as above for health services that do not use Ferret
Queensland LaboratoryAusLabProvides records of pathology tests undertaken as well as results
National Hospital Costing Data CollectionNHCDCData about the average cost of delivering activities to patients at national and state levels, including emergency department and inpatient activity
Costing Funding ValuesCFVProvides clinical costing data for each HHS
Australian government datasets
Medicare Benefits SchemeMBSMedical and hospital services for which a rebate is payable by the government
Pharmaceutical Benefits SchemePBSGovernment subsidised medicines and those free to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
National Death IndexNDIInformation 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.