Movement from hospital to residential aged care: preliminary results

Movement from hospital to residential aged care: preliminary results

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Data linkage series no. 4

The interface between acute hospital care and residential aged care has long been recognised as an important issue in aged care services research. Current hospital and residential aged care national data sets have been designed primarily to provide data on the specific program rather than to examine program interfaces. However, using event-based data linkage it is possible to link the two data sets thereby allowing analysis of the hospital and aged care interface. This report provides preliminary results from this linkage process when applied to data for four states and two territories for 2001-02, and investigates a particular issue - the use of residential aged care for interim care following a period in hospital.

Authored by Anderson P, Karmel R & Lloyd J.

Published 21 January 2008; ISSN 1833-1238; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 747 4; AIHW cat. no. CSI 4; 68pp.; INTERNET ONLY


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  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Symbols in tables
    • Abbreviations
    • Executive summary
  • Sections
    1. Background
      1. Report structure
    2. Types of transitions
    3. Data
      1. Hospital data
      2. Residential aged care data
    4. E linkage strategy
      1. Linkage protocol
      2. Linkage process: constrained E matching
      3. Validity of constrained E matching: results from comparing name-based and event-based linkage
    5. Linking the data
      1. Input data quality
      2. Linkage results
      3. Weighting for estimates of total flow
    6. Movements from hospital to RAC
      1. Age and sex
      2. Length of stay in hospital
      3. Principal diagnosis for transition event
      4. Care needs and moving into RAC
    7. Transitions from hospital to the community via RAC
      1. Type of RAC
      2. Age and sex
      3. Care needs
      4. People with selected conditions
    8. Conclusion
  • End matter
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures