| National Health Index |
Encrypted National Health Index number, date of birth and demographic data. (Data are available for all individuals with an NHI number) |
| Hospital admissions |
Publicly-funded hospitalisations: date of admission, date of discharge and ICD-coded discharge diagnoses. (1988-) |
| Outpatient admissions |
Publicly-funded outpatient and community visits (2006-) |
| Medication dispensing |
Government-subsidised medication dispensing claims from community pharmacies (2006-) |
| Laboratory Claims |
Publicly-funded laboratory tests requested; name of test recorded but does not include test results (2003-) |
| Primary Health Organisation (PHO) Enrolment |
Enrolment data from primary health care provider organisations. Individuals must re-enrol every 3 years to continue receiving funded care by a particular PHO (2004-) |
| General Medical Subsidy |
Funding claims by Primary Care professionals for patient visits; captures patients not enrolled with a regular primary care provider (2002-) |
| Mortality Collection |
Date of death and ICD-coded cause of death (1988-) |
| Virtual Diabetes Register |
Diabetes diagnosis as at the date of interest (e.g. 31 December 2006 for VARIANZ 2006 data) based on hospitalisations, outpatient visits, retinal screening, dispensing of diabetes-specific medications and laboratory HbA1c testing. (2005-) |
