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AR-DRG Version 10.0
PublicationsThe Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRGs) is a classification system, which provides a clinically meaningful way to relate the number and type of patients treated in a hospital to the resources required by the hospital. AR-DRGs group patients with s...
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Eleventh Edition
PublicationsICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Eleventh Edition, was implemented between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2022 for classifying episodes of admitted patient care across Australian hospital services.
ED ICD-10-AM (Eleventh Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List – User Guide
PublicationsThis document details the components and conventions of the ED Short List and is aimed at jurisdictions, data managers and health information managers involved in ED data.In addition to this document, a Principal Diagnosis Selection Guide fact sheet has been developed f...
Australian Teaching and Training Classification (ATTC) – Version 1.0 – User manual
PublicationsThis document provides background to the development of the new classification, explains the data elements and collection protocols, reporting requirements, and how the data is grouped.
Non-admitted home ventilation and maternity services
PublicationsOn 24 August 2017, the Commonwealth Minister for Health issued a Direction to IHPA under subsection 226(1) of the National Health Reform Act 2011 in relation to a number of changes to the classification, counting and scope of non-admitted activity in 2014-15 and 2015-16...
Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services 2018-19
PublicationsThere are three key publications that support the Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services Classification. Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services Definitions Manual, Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services Compendium and Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services National Index.
ED ICD-10-AM (Tenth Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List – User Guide
PublicationsThis document is for use primarily by jurisdictions and data managers and details the components of the short list, conventions used and specific guidelines for use. In addition to this document an abridged Quick Reference Guide for principal diagnosis reporting has bee...
ED ICD-10-AM (Tenth Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List - Quick Reference Guide
PublicationsThis document is a quick reference guide primarily for use by clinicians in the selection of the ED principal diagnosis code. There is also a comprehensive User guide for use by jurisdictions and data managers that provides additional detail as to the components and con...
Mental health phase of care Inter-rater reliability (IRR) study - Final report
PublicationsThe Inter-rater reliability study final report was approved by the Pricing Authority in April 2017. The primary aims of the study were to test the inter-rater reliability of the mental health phase of care instrument, gather information about the clinicians' views of th...
AR-DRG Version 9.0
PublicationsThe Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group (AR-DRG) Version 9.0 was implemented from 1 July 2018 and is the Australian Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) patient classification system that provides a clinically meaningful way of relating the types of patients treated in...