National Healthcare Agreement: PI 57-Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2012
Indicator Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Output measure |
Short name: | PI 57-Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2012 |
METEOR identifier: | 435897 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
Description: | Number of hospital bed days used by patients whose acute (or sub-acute) episode of admitted patient care has finished and who have been assessed by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) and approved for residential aged care |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health!, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
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Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 57-Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2012 QS Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | For numerator: Principal and additional diagnosis: Z75.11, ‘Person awaiting admission to residential aged care’ Care type: ‘Maintenance’ Separation mode: ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other acute hospital’; ‘discharge/transfer to a residential aged care service, unless this is the usual place of residence’; ‘statistical discharge - type change’; ‘died’; ‘discharge/transfer to other health care accommodation (includes mothercraft hospitals)’; ‘left against medical advice/discharge at own risk’; ‘statistical discharge from leave’; ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other psychiatric hospital’. Excludes same-day separations. Presented as:
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Computation: | Number 1,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of patient days used by patients who are waiting for residential aged care, where: — the care type was ‘maintenance’ — the diagnosis (either principal or additional) was ‘person awaiting admission to residential aged care service’ — the separation mode was ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other acute hospital’; ‘discharge/transfer to a residential aged care service, unless this is the usual place of residence’; ‘statistical discharge - type change’; ‘died’; ‘discharge/transfer to other health care accommodation (includes mothercraft hospitals)’; ‘left against medical advice/discharge at own risk’; ‘statistical discharge from leave’; or ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other psychiatric hospital’, and — the separation was overnight only |
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Denominator: | Total patient days (including overnight and same-day separations) |
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Disaggregation: | 2009–10—Nationally, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles 2009–10—State and territory, by:
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2009–10 The scope of the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) is episodes of care for admitted patients in essentially all hospitals in Australia, including public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free-standing day hospital facilities, alcohol and drug treatment hospitals and dental hospitals.
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Count |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
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Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Proxy |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 57-Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2011 Health!, Superseded 31/10/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 27-Number of hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2013 Health!, Superseded 30/04/2014 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 52-Falls in residential aged care resulting in patient harm and treated in hospital, 2012 Health!, Retired 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 56-People aged 65 years or over receiving sub-acute services, 2012 Health!, Retired 25/06/2013 |