Number of hospital separations with a diagnosis of injury resulting from fall, where the event occurred in residential aged care
This item has been retired and is not recommended for use by any registration authority.
Definition
Falls occurring in residential aged care and resulting in patient harm treated in hospital
Indicator Summary
Injury resulting from fall defined by ICD-10-AM external cause codes of W00–W19.
Events occurring in residential aged care defined by a place of occurrence code of Y92.14 (Aged Care Facility).
Only includes in the numerator those separations where the ICD-10-AM code for the principal diagnosis is in the range of S00–T14 (inclusive).
Analysis by state and territory is based on …
2009–10—Nationally, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles
2009–10—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)
- SEIFA IRSD quintiles
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.
Calculation rules
- Description
Injury resulting from fall defined by ICD-10-AM external cause codes of W00–W19.
Events occurring in residential aged care defined by a place of occurrence code of Y92.14 (Aged Care Facility).
Only includes in the numerator those separations where the ICD-10-AM code for the principal diagnosis is in the range of S00–T14 (inclusive).
Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service.
Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.
Presented as:
- number of separations
- per 10,000 resident-occupied place days.
Number of hospital separations with a diagnosis of injury resulting from fall, where the event occurred in residential aged care
Number of resident-occupied place days
2009–10—Nationally, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles
2009–10—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness (Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure)
- SEIFA IRSD quintiles
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.
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