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released: 13 Feb 2003

The Continence Aids Assistance Scheme (CAAS) Data Dictionary has been developed by the AIHW on behalf of the Department of Health and Ageing. The CAAS assists people of working age who have permanent incontinence resulting from a permanent disability, to defray the cost of continence management. This Dictionary provides definitions for the information collected from applicants, required from health professionals involved in assessing applicants, and used by those managing the Scheme. Careful attention has been given to aligning the definitions in this Dictionary with relevant national standards in the National Community Services Data Dictionary and National Health Data Dictionary.

ISBN 978 1 74024 241 7; Cat. no. DIS 28; 107pp.; INTERNET ONLY

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Continence Aids Assistance Scheme Data Dictionary

Full publication (1.65M PDF)

  • Preliminary material (101K PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (95K PDF)
      1. Background
      2. CAAS
      3. Development of the Application Form and Data Dictionary for CAAS
      4. Issues encountered during development
    2. Draft Application form and Application Guidelines (1.22M PDF)
    3. CAAS Data Dictionary Version 1.0 (362K PDF)
      1. Format
      2. Content
      3. Data Definitions
        • List of data items
      4. Report on PQ Lifestyles' data system and data collection administration for the Continence Aids Assistance Scheme (CAAS) (159K PDF)
        1. Introduction
        2. Aim of the review
        3. Background to the scheme
        4. Current administration by PQ Lifestyles
        5. PQ Lifestyles information requirements
        6. PQ Lifestyles Databases for managing CAAS
        7. CAAS - processes for information collection
        8. Suggested improvements to clarify definitions in CAAS
        9. PQ Lifestyles' ability and willingness to adapt to changes in data collection and application form for CAAS
        10. Summary
  • End matter (149K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Detailed description of the format for data element definitions
      • Appendix B: Code list for Country of birth
      • Appendix C: Alphabetic code list for Country of birth
    • References

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Recommended citation

AIHW 2003. Continence aids assistance scheme data dictionary version 1.0. Cat. no. DIS 28. Canberra: AIHW.