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Definition

The nature of the maintenance care provided to an admitted patient during an episode of care, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Type of maintenance care provided code N ".
Data Type Number
Format N
Maximum character length 1
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 Convalescent
2 Respite
3 Nursing home type
5 Other
8 Unknown
Supplementary Values 9 Not stated/inadequately described

Comments

Guide for use:

This data element is required to be recorded for all maintenance care type episodes when reporting to the Admitted subacute and non-acute ABF DSS.

The type of maintenance care should be recorded at the start of the episode of care.

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.


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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 2
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0