National Healthcare Agreement: PI 57-Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2011
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
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, 2011 |
| METEOR identifier: | 403166 |
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| 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| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2011) Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 |
| Outcome area: | Aged Care Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
| Quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 57: Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2011 QS Health, Superseded 04/12/2012 |
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 residential aged care, unless this is usual place of residence’, ‘statistical discharge—type change’, ‘died’, ‘discharge/transfer to other health care accommodation (including mothercraft hospitals)’ or ‘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 a number and per 1,000 patient days. |
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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', and — the diagnosis (either principal or additional) was ‘person awaiting admission to residential aged care service’ and — the separation mode was ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other acute hospital’, ‘discharge, transfer to residential aged care, unless this is usual place of residence’, ‘statistical discharge—type change’, ‘died’, ‘discharge/transfer to other health care accommodation (including mothercraft hospitals)’; ‘left against medical advice/discharge at own risk;’ 'statistical discharge from leave’; or ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other psychiatric hospital’ — the separation was overnight only |
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| Denominator: | Total patient days (including overnight and same-day separations) |
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| Disaggregation: | 2007–08 and 2008–09—Nationally, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles 2007–08 and 2008–09—state and territory, by:
Disaggregations are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2007–08 (backcast new data) and 2008–09. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Count |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) Frequency Annual Data custodian Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Accountability attributes | |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Proxy |
Source and reference attributes | |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: P57-Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2010
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 56-People aged 65 years or over receiving sub-acute services, 2011
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 57-Hospital patient days used by those eligible and waiting for residential aged care, 2012
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