Proportion of home care recipients who had experienced at least one fracture.

Number of home care recipients who had a fracture requiring an emergency department presentation or hospitalisation, or secondary diagnosis where onset is not during the hospitalisation, the external cause of the hospitalisation is fall, treatment for which MBS paid for, and deaths from fractures.

Number of home care recipients.

Inpatient falls (onset in hospital).

Age, sex, number of health conditions, dementia and osteoporosis.

None

Hospital, mortality and subsidised health service records. South Australian Admitted Patient Care; South Australian Non-Admitted Emergency Care; New South Wales Admitted Patient Data Collection; New South Wales Emergency Department Data Collection; Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset; Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset; Queensland Emergency Department Collection; Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection; Medicare Benefits Schedule; National Death Index.

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.

Caughey GE, Lang CE, Bray SCE, et al. Quality and safety indicators for home care recipients in Australia: development and cross-sectional analyses. BMJ Open 2022;12(8):e063152

Registry of Senior Australians. Home Care Outcome Monitoring System Technical Specification - Fractures. Version 1.0. South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. Adelaide, Australia; May 2023, 10 pages. static1.squarespace.com/static/5b8c84fc4cde7abe6c3e7d7c/t/64816ef7da91972f5115e689/1686204152467/6IndicatorFracturesV1+dated+28-04-2023WEBSITE.pdf