Proportion of home care recipients with dementia who had an emergency department presentation or hospitalisation for delirium or dementia.

Number of home care recipients with dementia who had an emergency department presentation or hospitalisation where dementia or delirium (principal discharge diagnoses).

Number of home care recipients with dementia diagnosis (ascertained based on reporting of conditions from the aged care eligibility assessments and Rx-Risk-V).

None

Age, sex, number of health conditions excluding dementia.

None

Hospital records. SA APC: South Australian Admitted Patient Care. SA NAEC: South Australian Non-Admitted Emergency Care. NSW APDC: New South Wales Admitted Patient Data Collection. NSW EDDC: New South Wales Emergency Department Data Collection. VAED: Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset. VEMD: Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset. QLD EDC: Queensland Emergency Department Collection. QHAPDC: 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. Home Care Outcome Monitoring System Technical Specification – Delirium or Dementia-related Hospitalisation. Version 1.0. South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. Adelaide, Australia; May 2023, 2 pages static1.squarespace.com/static/5b8c84fc4cde7abe6c3e7d7c/t/6489243186237766e1b49376/1686709320273/10IndicatorDeliriumorDementiarelatedHospitalisationsV1+dated+28-04-2023WEBSITE.pdf