Interface Between Hospital and Residential Aged Care

Full publication (403K PDF)

• Preliminary material (45K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface 
  • Acknowledgments
  • Summary of results and recommendations
• Sections
  1. Context (25K PDF)
     1. Background 
     2. AIHW feasibility study
     3. AHMAC Care of Older Australians Working Group
  2. Aims 
  3. The linkage strategy 
     1. The linkage variables
     2. The linkage process
     3. The data
  4. Testing the feasibility of the linkage strategy (47K PDF)
     1. Unique linkage keys in the residential aged care data
     2. Unique linkage keys in the hospital morbidity data
     3. Unique keys in the linked database
     4. Summary
  5. Validation of linkages using other variables(45K PDF)
     1. Mode of separation from hospital
     2. Place of assessment for residential aged care admissions
     3. Marital status
     4. Summary
  6. Results for Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania (124K PDF)
     1. Unique linkage keys in the unlinked data
     2. Unique linkage keys in the linked data.
     3. Validation
     4. Summary
  7. Analytical potential: examples
     1. General client characteristics 
     2. Length of stay in hospital
     3. Diagnoses
     4. Costs 
     5. Examining particular issues: an example
     6. Possible future analyses
  8. Data development (48K PDF)
     1. Mode of separation (hospital)
     2. Accommodation setting prior to admission to residential aged care
     3. Other developments
  9. Future directions (20K PDF)
     1. Next steps - short term.
     2. Next steps - longer term
• End Matter
  • Appendix
    • Appendix 1 Additional tables for New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory (53K PDF)
      1. Additional tables 
      2. Preliminary tables including same day hospital separations 
    • Appendix 2 Tables for Western Australia (31K PDF)
    • Appendix 3 Tables for South Australia (32K PDF)
    • Appendix 4 Tables for Tasmania (30K PDF)
    • Appendix 5 The data (18K PDF)
      1. Hospital morbidity data 
      2. Residential aged care data 
  • Glossary (16K PDF)
  • Reference