
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sharwood, Penny 
A1  - O'Connell, Bernadette 
T1  - Assessing the relationship between inpatient and outpatient activity:a clinical specialty analysis
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 2000
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
SP  - 137
EP  - 144
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH000137A 
N2  - General and specialist services in public acute hospital outpatient departments play a key role in the health care systemand represent a vital interface between inpatient and community care. Typically outpatient services involve millionsof patient visits within a very short time frame and in Victoria alone between 8-10 million outpatient occasions ofservice are provided each year. Drawing on the first full year of data from the Victorian Ambulatory ClassificationSystem (VACS) this paper examines the patterns underlying the distribution of inpatient separations and outpatientencounters at 16 major Victorian public hospitals and assesses the relationship between inpatient and outpatientactivity at the clinical specialty level. 
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