Emergency Department Presentation

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Dementia Care
Country
Australia
Publishing Organisation
Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA): Residential Aged Care Outcome Monitoring System
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Risks During Hospitalisation

Defining Attributes

Definition

Proportion of short-term and long-term residents who had an emergency department presentation within 30 days of entry/re-entry to aged care from hospital

Numerator

Number of residents admitted to an emergency department within 30 days of entry/re-entry to care

Denominator

Number of residents who re-entered after hospital discharge

Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Yes
Risk Adjustments

Age, sex, history of hospitalisations, comorbidities, length of stay

Stratifications

Short vs long-term residents

Collection and Reporting Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Administrative data
Data Collection Methods
Frequency of Data Collection
Continuous
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
1
Reporting Methods

Published publicly annually at national level. Individualised home care provider specific reports with benchmarks provided privately (to providers with more than 20 recipients ) for South Australia only annually.

Reporting Frequency
Published publicly annually at national level. Individualised home care provider specific reports with benchmarks provided privately (to providers with more than 20 recipients ) for South Australia only annually.
Reporting Frequency in Days
365
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Evidence Source

Inacio , et al. The Registry of Senior Australians outcome monitoring system: Quality and safety indicators for residential aged care. Int J Qual Health Care 2020;32(8):502–10 ./doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa078

Technical Specifications

Inacio , et al. The Registry of Senior Australians outcome monitoring system: Quality and safety indicators for residential aged care. Int J Qual Health Care 2020;32(8):502–10 ./doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa078

Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
02 December 2025