Discharge experience index
The Victorian Healthcare Experience Survey (VHES) asks patients about their experiences during their stay at a Victorian public health service. As part of the survey, patients are asked questions about their experience of being discharged from a health service.
The discharge experience index is the average result for very positive responses to four of the discharge questions. You can filter by health service.
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About the data
About discharge experience
As part of the survey, patients are asked three questions about their discharge experience:
- Before you left hospital, did staff give you or to someone close to you useful information about managing your health and care at home?
- Did hospital staff take your family, home or health situation into account when planning your return to home?
- Were you involved, as much as you wanted to be, in decisions about leaving hospital?
The discharge experience index is the average result for very positive responses to these questions. A 'very positive' response is when the patient chose the most positive response option available.
Notes
- Data source: Victorian Healthcare Experience Survey: Adult Inpatient. Data extracted on 16 January 2023
- As there was a pause in data collection between 2019–20, and changes to the collection methodology and survey instruments, two quarters of data are currently available for comparison.
- From 2021-22 Q1, results are not shown when there were fewer than 10 survey responses for a health service
- Results are lagged by one quarter
- Western Health and Djerriwarrh Health Services voluntarily amalgamated on 1 July 2021. Results from Jul-Sep 2021 for Western Health includes the former Djerriwarrh Health Services
- Ballarat Health Services, Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, and Wimmera Health Care Group voluntarily amalgamated on 1 November 2021 into Grampians Health. These former entities are now presented as Grampians Health – Ballarat Health Services, Grampians Health – Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Grampians Health – Stawell Regional Health, and Grampians Health – Wimmera Health Care Group
- Castlemaine Health and Maldon Hospital voluntarily amalgamated on 1 March 2022 into Dhelkaya Health. Their former entities are now presented as Dhelkaya Health – Castlemaine and Dhelkaya Health – Maldon
- * Results not available at time of reporting. Data will be updated with next quarterly release
- NP - Results not published.