1 | Whether and how often treated with respect and dignity descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes, always | 2 | Yes, sometimes | 3 | No | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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2 | How often doctors, nurses and other health professionals explained things in an understandable way descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | All of the time | 2 | Most of the time | 3 | Some of the time | 4 | Rarely | 5 | Never | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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3 | Involved as much as they wanted to be in decisions about their care and treatment descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes, definitely | 2 | Yes, to some extent | 3 | No | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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4 | Family or someone close to the patient wanted to talk to staff indicator | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes | 2 | No | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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5 | Extent of opportunity for family or someone close to talk to staff descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes, definitely | 2 | Yes, to some extent | 3 | No | 4 | The patient did not want family or friends to talk to staff | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
| Conditional obligation: This data element is only to be reported if the response to the Patient—family or friends wanted to talk to staff indicator data element is yes (Code 1). |
6 | Worries or fears about condition or treatment while in hospital indicator | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes | 2 | No | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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7 | Extent of discussion of worries or fears about condition or treatment with a healthcare professional descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes, completely | 2 | Yes, to some extent | 3 | No | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
| Conditional obligation: This data element is only to be reported if the response to the Patient—worries and fears about their condition or treatment presence indicator data element is yes (Code 1). |
8 | Amount of information given to family, carer or someone close about condition or treatment descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Not enough | 2 | Right amount | 3 | Too much | 4 | No family, carer or friends of the patient were involved | 5 | The family, carer or friends of the patient did not want or need information | 6 | The patient did not want their family, carer or friends to have any information | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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9 | In pain while in hospital indicator | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes | 2 | No | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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10 | Hospital staff did everything they could to help manage the patient's pain descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes, definitely | 2 | Yes, to some extent | 3 | No | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
| Conditional obligation: This data element is only to be reported if the response to the Patient—in pain while in hospital indicator, code N data element is yes (Code 1). |
11 | Extent to which assistance was received from staff within a reasonable timeframe descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | All of the time | 2 | Most of the time | 3 | Some of the time | 4 | Rarely | 5 | Never | 6 | The patient did not need assistance | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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12 | Level of cleanliness of hospital toilets and bathrooms descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Very clean | 2 | Fairly clean | 3 | Not very clean | 4 | Not at all clean | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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13 | Given enough information about how to manage care at home after leaving hospital descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes, completely | 2 | Yes, to some extent | 3 | No | 4 | The patient did not need this type of information | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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14 | Adequate arrangements made by the hospital for any services needed after leaving hospital descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes, completely | 2 | Yes, to some extent | 3 | No | 4 | The patient did not need any services | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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15 | How well doctors and nurses worked together descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Excellent | 2 | Very good | 3 | Good | 4 | Fair | 5 | Poor | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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16 | Overall rating of care received while in hospital descriptor | Number
[1]
| 1 | Very good | 2 | Good | 3 | Adequate | 4 | Poor | 5 | Very poor | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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17 | Self-assessed health status | Number
[1]
| 1 | Excellent | 2 | Very good | 3 | Good | 4 | Fair | 5 | Poor | 8 | Don't know | 9 | Refused to answer |
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- | Separation date | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY The day of a particular month and year. | |
- | Mode of separation | Number
[1]
| 1 | Discharge/transfer to (an)other acute hospital | 2 | Discharge/transfer to a residential aged care service, unless this is the usual place of residence | 3 | Discharge/transfer to (an)other psychiatric hospital | 4 | Discharge/transfer to other health care accommodation (includes mothercraft hospitals) | 5 | Statistical discharge - type change | 6 | Left against medical advice/discharge at own risk | 7 | Statistical discharge from leave | 8 | Died | 9 | Other (includes discharge to usual residence, own accommodation/welfare institution (includes prisons, hostels and group homes providing primarily welfare services)) |
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- | Establishment identifier | String
[9]
| NNX[X]NNNNN A combination of numeric and alphanumeric characters that identify an entity. | |
- | Area of usual residence (SA2) | String
[9]
| N(9) A code set representing a medium-sized area built from whole Statistical areas level 1 (SA1s). The aim of Statistical areas level 2 (SA2s) is to represent a community that interacts together socially and economically. | |
- | Date of birth | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY The day of a particular month and year. | |
- | Date of statistical survey completion | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY The day of a particular month and year. | DSS specific information: This data element describes the date on which the patient completes the patient experience survey data collection instrument. |
- | Indigenous status | Number
[1]
| 1 | Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander origin | 2 | Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal origin | 3 | Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin | 4 | Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander origin | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| DSS specific information: AIHW recommendation: Change the coding of incompatible responses (where a person identifies as both non-Indigenous and Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander status) from the recommendation to record this response as Indigenous, to the recommendation that the response should be clarified with the respondent where possible, or otherwise coded as not stated. |
- | Main language spoken at home | Number
[4]
| NN{NN} The Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL 2011) code set representing languages. | |
- | Mode of statistical survey completion | Number
[2]
| 1 | Paper and pencil interviewing (PAPI) | 2 | Computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) | 3 | Paper forms | 4 | Computerised self-administered questionnaire (CSAQ) | 5 | Computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) | 6 | Telephone paper and pencil interviewing (PAPI) | 7 | Interactive voice response (IVR) | 88 | Other |
| DSS specific information: This data element describes the mode by which the patient completes the patient experience survey data collection instrument. |
- | Preferred language | Number
[4]
| NN{NN} The Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL 2011) code set representing languages. | |
- | Sex | Number
[1]
| 1 | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | Intersex or indeterminate | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
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