Movement from hospital to residential aged care: preliminary results

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Release Date: 21 Jan 2008

Topic: Aged care

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008) Movement from hospital to residential aged care: preliminary results, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 06 November 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2008). Movement from hospital to residential aged care: preliminary results. Canberra: AIHW.

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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.

ISSN: 1833-1238
ISBN: 978 1 74024 747 4
Cat. no: CSI 4
Pages: 68

Findings from this report:

10% of hospital separations for people aged 65 and over during 2001–02 were into residential aged care
One in 3 admissions into residential aged care came from hospital
Only 8% of people admitted into permanent care after hospital returned home within 3 months.
One-fifth of people who moved into permanent care died within 12 weeks, compared with 6% of those entering respite

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

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