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Resource Utilisation Groups—Activities of Daily Living

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
Synonymous names:Help on this termRUG-ADL
METEOR identifier:Help on this term495909
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 04/04/2014
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016
Definition:Help on this term

An assessment of patient motor function.

Context:Help on this term

The Resource Utilisation Groups—Activities of Daily Living (RUG-ADL) scale measures the motor function of a patient for four activities of daily living.

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

RUG-ADL is a four-item scale measuring patient motor function for activities of daily living including:

  • Bed mobility
  • Toileting
  • Transfers
  • Eating

The scoring scale for bed mobility, toileting and transfers is:

1 - Independent or supervision only

3 - Limited physical assistance

4 - Other than two person physical assist

5 - Two or more person physical assist

Note: A score of 2 is not valid for bed mobility, toileting and transfer items.


The scoring scale for eating is:

1 - Independent or supervision only

2 - Limited assistance

3 - Extensive assistance/total dependence/tube fed

The total RUG-ADL score (the sum of the individual scale items) will be a value between 4 and 18.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Origin:Help on this term

Fries BE, Schneider DP et al. 1994. Refining a casemix measure for nursing homes. Resource Utilisation Groups (RUG-III). Medical Care 32:668-685.

Reference documents:Help on this term

Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration 2014. Palliative care outcomes collaboration: Clinical manual. Wollongong: University of Wollongong.  

Relational attributes

Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Activity based funding: Admitted sub-acute and non-acute hospital care DSS 2013-2014
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 11/10/2012
Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2021–22
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021
Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2022–23
  • Health, Standard 17/12/2021
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care DSS 2014-15
  • Health, Superseded 13/11/2014
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care DSS 2015-16
  • Health, Superseded 19/11/2015
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2016-17
  • Health, Superseded 03/11/2016
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2017-18
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Candidate 04/08/2016
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2018-19
  • Health, Superseded 17/10/2018
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2019-20
  • Health, Superseded 18/12/2019
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2020–21
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2021
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2021–22
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
Admitted subacute and non-acute hospital care NBEDS 2022–23
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Episode of admitted patient care—clinical assessment score, code NN
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 30/10/2012
Person—level of functional independence, Resource Utilisation Groups - Activities of Daily Living score code N
  • Health, Standard 23/12/2020
Person—level of functional independence, Resource Utilisation Groups - Activities of Daily Living score code N
  • Health, Superseded 23/12/2020
Resource Utilisation Groups–Activities of Daily Living score code N
  • Health, Standard 23/12/2020
Resource Utilisation Groups–Activities of Daily Living total score code N[N]
  • Health, Standard 18/12/2019
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 06/05/2020
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