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Definition

This DSS aims to ensure national consistency in relation to defining and collecting information about care provided to sub-acute and non-acute admitted public and private patients in activity based funded public hospitals.

Sub-acute care in this DSS is identified as admitted episodes in rehabilitation care, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management care and psychogeriatric care whereas maintenance care is identified as non-acute care.

The scope of the DSS is:

  • Same day and overnight sub-acute and non-acute care episodes in designated sub-acute and non-acute care units, programs or hospitals.
  • Admitted public patients provided on a contracted basis by private hospitals in designated sub-acute and non-acute care units, programs or hospitals.
  • Admitted patients in rehabilitation care, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric and maintenance care designated programs treated in the hospital-in-the-home.

Excluded from the scope are:

  • Sub-acute and non-acute episodes in non-designated units, programs or hospitals.
  • Hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, correctional authorities and Australia's external territories.

The Activity based funding: Admitted sub-acute and non-acute data set specification includes the collection and reporting of additional metadata which forms part of the broader Admitted patient care NMDS.

Data collected using this DSS can be related to national data collections:

Admitted patient care NMDS

Admitted patient palliative care NMDS

Admitted patient mental health NMDS

Glossary items

Some previous data element concepts are available in the METeOR glossary. Glossary items are available online through links in the relevant metadata items. In addition, links to the glossary terms that are relevant to this data set specification are listed below.

Activity based funding

Functional Independence Measure

Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+

Palliative care phase

Resource Utilisation Groups - Activities of Daily Living

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.


Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Episode of admitted patient care—Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class, (AN-SNAP v 1) code NNN
Conditional Inclusion:

Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as:

  • 2.0 rehabilitation care;
  • 3.0 palliative care;
  • 4.0 geriatric evaluation and management;
  • 5.0 psychogeriatric care; or
  • 6.0 maintenance care.

Only required to be reported when Episode of admitted patient care - Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class (AN-SNAP v2) or Episode of admitted patient care - Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class (AN-SNAP v3) has not been reported.

- - conditional 1
Episode of admitted patient care—Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class, (AN-SNAP v 2) code NNNN
Conditional Inclusion:

Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as:

  • 2.0 rehabilitation care;
  • 3.0 palliative care;
  • 4.0 geriatric evaluation and management;
  • 5.0 psychogeriatric care; or
  • 6.0 maintenance care.

Only required to be reported when Episode of admitted patient care - Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class (AN-SNAP v1) or Episode of admitted patient care - Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class (AN-SNAP v3) has not been reported.

- - conditional 1
Episode of admitted patient care—Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class, (AN-SNAP v 3) code NNNN
Conditional Inclusion:

Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as:

  • 2.0 rehabilitation care;
  • 3.0 palliative care;
  • 4.0 geriatric evaluation and management;
  • 5.0 psychogeriatric care; or
  • 6.0 maintenance care.

Only required to be reported when Episode of admitted patient care - Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class (AN-SNAP v1) or Episode of admitted patient care - Australian national sub-acute and non-acute patient class (AN-SNAP v2) has not been reported.

- - conditional 1
Episode of admitted patient care—clinical assessment only indicator, yes/no/unknown code N
Conditional Inclusion:

Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as:

  • 2.0 rehabilitation care;
  • 3.0 palliative care;
  • 4.0 geriatric evaluation and management;
  • 5.0 psychogeriatric care; or
  • 6.0 maintenance care.
Number 1 conditional 1
Episode of admitted patient care—palliative care phase, code N
Specific Information:

For episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as 3.0 palliative care, the palliative care phase must be reported for each palliative care phase if the episode of admitted patient care had more than one phase.

Conditional Inclusion:

Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as 3.0 palliative care.

Only required to be reported when Episode of admitted patient care-assessment only indicator, yes/no, code N value recorded as 2 no.

- - conditional 1
Episode of admitted patient care—palliative phase of care end date, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:

For episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as 3.0 palliative care, the palliative care phase must be reported for each palliative care phase if the episode of admitted patient care had more than one phase.

Conditional Inclusion:

Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as 3.0 palliative care.

Only required to be reported when Episode of admitted patient care-assessment only indicator, yes/no, code N value recorded as 2 no.

Date/Time 8 conditional 1
Episode of admitted patient care—palliative phase of care start date, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:

For episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as 3.0 palliative care, the palliative care phase must be reported for each palliative care phase if the episode of admitted patient care had more than one phase.

Conditional Inclusion:

Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with hospital service-care type, code N[N].N recorded as 3.0 palliative care.

Only required to be reported when Episode of admitted patient care-assessment only indicator, yes/no, code N value recorded as 2 no.

Date/Time 8 conditional 1

Comments

Comments:

The Activity based funding: Admitted sub-acute and non-acute data set specification includes the collection and reporting of additional metadata which forms part of the broader Admitted patient care NMDS.

Data collected using this DSS can be related to national data collections:

Admitted patient care NMDS

Admitted patient palliative care NMDS

Admitted patient mental health NMDS

Glossary items

Some previous data element concepts are available in the METeOR glossary. Glossary items are available online through links in the relevant metadata items. In addition, links to the glossary terms that are relevant to this data set specification are listed below.

Activity based funding

Functional Independence Measure

Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+

Palliative care phase

Resource Utilisation Groups - Activities of Daily Living

References

Eagar K. et al (1997). The Australian National Sub-acute and Non-acute Patient Classification (AN-SNAP): Report of the National Sub-acute and Non-acute Casemix Classification Study. Centre for Health Service Development, University of Wollongong. Viewed 26 October 2012, http://ahsri.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@chsd/documents/doc/uow082315.pdf


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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