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Standardised Mini-Mental State Examination (SMMSE) Tool
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The Standardised Mini-Mental State Examination (SMMSE) was developed to provide clear unequivocal guidelines for administration and scoring. The SMMSE takes less time to administer and has significantly reduced the variability of the MMSE. The test covers a variety of cognitive domains, including orientation to time and place, short and long term memory, registration, recall, constructional ability, language and the ability to understand and follow commands. The test usually takes about ten minutes to complete and can be used reliably after a short training period by physicians, nurses and other health care professionals.
Australian Subacute and Non-Acute Patient Classification Version 4.0 Fact Sheet
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The Australian National Subacute and Non-acute Patient Classification (AN-SNAP) is a casemix classification that categorises rehabilitation, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric care and non-acute care. AN-SNAP Version 4 classifies episodes of subacute and non-acute patient care on the basis of setting, care type, phase of care, assessment of functional impairment, age and other measures.
AECC Definitions Manual
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This manual details the logic for assigning AECC end classes to emergency care episodes. The logic is represented in software—the AECC grouper—which should be the primary way that emergency care episodes are grouped to the AECC. This manual is a reference for the logic used by the AECC grouper.
AECC Final Report
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The AECC was developed using a combination of statistical analysis and clinical input: the splits in the classification demonstrate statistical as well as clinical validity. An independent reviewer also reviewed the model outputs, thus providing further assurance of the quality of the resulting classification. The AECC adopts variables that are currently reported through national minimum data sets— visit type, episode end status, triage category, transport mode (arrival), age group and principal diagnosis short list code. It has also been designed so that improved measures of complexity can be introduced as they become available. Refinement of the AECC relies on good quality costing data. Hospitals will need to continually improve their costing methods and reporting to provide a source to refine the classification.
Impact of New Health Technology Framework Version 4.3
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The Impact of New Health Technology Framework (the Framework) outlines the process by which IHPA, via its Clinical Advisory Committee (CAC), will monitor and review the impact of new health technologies on the existing classifications in order to accurately account for them in the pricing of public hospital services.
AR-DRG Version 10.0
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The 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 similar diagnoses requiring similar hospital services. AR-DRG Version 10.0 was approved by the Pricing Authority in April 2019 and was implemented from 1 July 2020 to price admitted acute episodes of care. AR-DRG Version 10.0 supersedes AR-DRG Version 9.0.
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Eleventh Edition
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ICD-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.
IHPA Work Program 2019–20
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The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) Work Program has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of section 225 of the National Health Reform Act 2011.
Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2020–21 open for public consultation
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The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) today released its Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2020–21.
ED ICD-10-AM (Eleventh Edition) Principal Diagnosis Short List – User Guide
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This 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 for clinicians responsible for selecting the ED principal diagnosis.
National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Public Sector Report 2016–17
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The National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Public Sector Report and infographics present the results from NHCDC 2016-17. These documents describe the hospital costs submitted by jurisdictions for the following activity streams: admitted acute, non-admitted, emergency department, mental health, subacute and non-acute.
IHPA releases National Efficient Price and National Efficient Cost Determinations for 2019-20
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The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) today released the National Efficient Price (NEP) and National Efficient Cost (NEC) Determinations for Australian public hospital services for 2019-20.