Palliative care Information development: progress report on the National Minimum Data Set for palliative care

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• Palliative care Information development: progress report on the National Minimum Data Set for palliative care (242K PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (62K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
• Chapters
  1. Introduction (54K PDF)
     1. Aims of this report
  2. Palliative care in Australia (86K PDF)
     1. What is palliative care?
     2. The increase in palliative care
     3. Palliative care services in Australia
     4. Implications for data collection
  3. Existing palliative care data (153K PDF)
     1. National Hospital Morbidity Database
     2. National Public Hospitals Establishments Database
     3. Private Health Establishments Collection
     4. National Census of Palliative Care Services
     5. Other data developments
     6. Issues in data development
  4. Performance indicators in palliative care (57K PDF)
     1. Issues in developing performance information
     2. Future development for performance indicators
  5. Development of the National Minimum Data Set for Palliative Care (86K PDF)
     1. Initial development of the NMDS - palliative care
     2. Recent development of the NMDS - palliative care
  6. Future directions (87K PDF)
     1. Proposed data developments
     2. Work program
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix A: Performance indicators proposed by Palliative Care Australia (117K PDF)
    • Appendix B: Data requirements for palliative care performance indicators
    • Appendix C: Data elements recommended by the Victorian Department of Human Services for inclusion in the National Minimum Data Set - palliative care
    • Appendix D: The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare;
      Structures and data development processes for national health information
  • References (34K PDF)