Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED)
› Public & private separations by LGA:
Victoria, 2006/07
This data set provides selected hospital separations data
by age group, LGA and Major Diagnostic Category (MDC). Detailed data
by both age and MDC is available for metropolitan LGAs only, due to small
numbers of separations at this level of detail in many regional LGAs.
The full data set covers all separations in the 2006/07 financial
year, and is based on LGA of patient residence, not the LGA where the
hospital is located. A separation occurs when an inpatient or same day
patient leaves hospital - this could be to go home, to go to another
hospital or institution, or when a patient dies.
The actual (observed) number of separations for each LGA by age group and MDC is used to calculate the crude morbidity (separation) rate per 1,000 ERP for each group (utilising the 2006 ERP data by age and LGA). This rate is separations divided by (ERP divided by 1,000).
