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