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Episode of admitted patient care—referral destination

Definition

Referral to further care by health service agencies/facilities.

Components

Data Element
Implemented in 1 data element

Comments

Context:

Mental health care:

Many psychiatric inpatients have continuing needs for post-discharge care. Continuity of care across the hospital-community interface is a key policy theme emerging in the various states and territories. Inclusion of this metadata item allows the opportunity to monitor interagency linkages and is complementary to the metadata item the source of referral.

References


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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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept 1