Number of patient days used by patients who are waiting for residential aged care, where:
- the care type was ‘maintenance’
- the diagnosis (either principal or additional) was ‘person awaiting admission to residential aged care service’
- the separation mode was ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other acute hospital’; ‘discharge/transfer to a residential aged care service, unless this is the usual place of residence’; ‘statistical discharge - type change’; ‘died’; ‘discharge/transfer to other health care accommodation (includes mothercraft hospitals)’; ‘left against medical advice/discharge at own risk’; ‘statistical discharge from leave’; or ‘discharge/transfer to (an)other psychiatric hospital’, and
- the separation was overnight only