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presents hospitalisation rates for a variety of conditions which cause seriousshort-term affliction and could possibly be prevented, or their severity minimised,through access to effective primary health care services.Table 9.3.4Age standardised hospitalisation rates for potentiallypreventable acute conditions, per 100 000 people, Queensland,WA, SA, and public hospitals in the NT, 2004-05 a, bIndigenousNon-Indigenous cDehydration and gastroenteritis rate 372.8 215.1 218.0Pyelonephritis d rate 750.0 198.0 209.9Perforated/bleeding ulcer rate 36.0 23.5 23.7Cellulitis rate 555.0 134.2 148.3Pelvic inflammatory disease rate 83.8 24.9 27.4Ear, nose and throat infections rate 401.7 180.4 188.9Dental conditions rate 311.6 282.5 285.6Appendicitis rate 158.3 140.1 140.9Convulsions and epilepsy rate 870.7 135.2 157.0Gangrene rate 146.5 19.3 22.1Total e rate 3 684.3 1 352.2 1 420.7a Hospitalisation rates are directly age standardised using the 2001 Australian population. b Data are basedon state of usual residence. c Non-Indigenous includes hospitalisations of people identified as not Indigenousas well as those with a ‘not stated’ Indigenous status. d Kidney inflammation caused by bacterial infection.e Totals may not equal the sum of the individual conditions due to rounding.Source: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database (unpublished); table 9A.3.5.Total• Hospitalisation rates for Indigenous people with potentially preventable acuteconditions were 2.7 times as high as the rates for non-Indigenous people in2004-05 (3684.3 hospitalisations per 100 000 Indigenous people compared to1352.2 hospitalisations per 100 000 non-Indigenous people, respectively)(table 9.3.4).• Hospitalisation rates for Indigenous people with gangrene were 7.6 times as highand for convulsions and epilepsy 6.4 times as high as the rates fornon-Indigenous people (table 9.3.4).• For dental conditions and appendicitis, hospitalisation rates were similar forIndigenous and non-Indigenous people (table 9.3.4).• Indigenous hospitalisation rates for potentially preventable acute conditions weresimilar in 2001-02 and 2002-03 (3542.1 and 3543.2 hospitalisations per 100 000people, respectively) (table 9A.3.4). The Indigenous hospitalisation rate forpotentially preventable acute conditions increased in 2003-04 to 3678.2hospitalisations per 100 000 people and remained at similar levels in 2004-05 at3684.3 hospitalisations per 100 000 people (table 9A.3.5).OVERCOMINGINDIGENOUSDISADVANTAGE 2007