Proportion of home care episodes where clients who were hospitalised had an emergency department within 30 days of discharge.

Number of home care recipients who had an emergency department presentation within 30 days of entry/re-entry to residential aged care facility (>1 day after entry).

Number of home care recipients.

None

Age, sex, number of health conditions, number of prior hospitalisations.

None

Hospital records: South Australian Admitted Patient Care. South Australian Emergency Department Data Collection. 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.

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. Outcome Monitoring System Technical Specification – Emergency Department Presentations. Version 1.0. South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. Adelaide, Australia; May 2023, 1 page static1.squarespace.com/static/5b8c84fc4cde7abe6c3e7d7c/t/648924f95bae863d15f39cd6/1686709498223/11IndicatorEmergencyDepartmentPresentationsV1+dated+28-04-2023WEBSITE.pdf