For numerator:

• Principal or additional diagnosis was Z75.11 'Person awaiting admission to residential aged care service’, or Z75.41 ‘Unavailability and inaccessibility of residential aged care service’, and
• Care type was ‘Maintenance’, and
• 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
• Excludes same-day separations.

Presented as:

• a number, and
• per 1,000 patient days.

Number

1,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Number of patient days used by patients who are waiting for/unable to access residential aged care, where:

• Care type was ‘maintenance’, and
• the diagnosis (either principal or additional) was Z75.11 ‘Person awaiting admission to residential aged care service’ or Z75.41 ‘Unavailability and inaccessibility of residential aged care service’, and
• 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.

Total patient days (including overnight and same-day separations)

2017–18—Nationally, by 2016 Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles (not reported).

2017–18—State and territory, by:

• Indigenous status
• remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2016 Remoteness Structure)
• 2016 SEIFA IRSD quintiles.

Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.

Most recent data available for 2020 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2017–18.

The scope of the National Hospital Morbidity Database 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.

For 2017–18 data, the 2016 SEIFA IRSD quintile and decile data will be produced using the Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2016 geographical unit of Statistical Area 2.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

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