Aged care assessment—palliative care phase, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Aged care assessment palliative care phase |
METEOR identifier: | 775226 |
Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 |
Definition: | The phase of palliative care recorded at the commencement of the aged care episode or during an aged care assessment, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Aged care assessment—palliative care phase |
Value Domain: | Palliative care phase code N |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The phase of palliative care is to be recorded for each residential aged care episode a person receives. Palliative care phases are not necessarily sequential and a patient may transit back and forth between phases. Palliative care phases provide a clinical indication of the type of care required and have been shown to correlate strongly with survival within longitudinal prospective studies.
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health and Aged Care |
Reference documents: | AN-ACC resources | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. Viewed 9 January 2023, https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/an-acc-resources |
Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Aged care assessment cluster Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Conditional obligation: For the Aged Care NMDS, this data element is conditional on code 4 being selected for Aged care assessment—assessment type, code N[N]. |