Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols used in tables
    • Summary
  • Body section
    1. Introduction 
      • 1.1 Event data
      • 1.2 Linkage method
      • 1.3 Approximate estimates of flow
    2. Regional movements
    3. Leaving hospital 
      • 3.1 Characteristics of patients leaving hospital
      • 3.2 Length of stay
      • 3.3 Hospital care type
      • 3.4 Hospital diagnosis
      • 3.5 Regional profile
    4. Moving into residential aged care
      • 4.1 Characteristics of people admitted into residential aged care
      • 4.2 Place of assessment
      • 4.3 Care needs
      • 4.4 Regional profile
    5. Analysis of person outcomes
      • 5.1 Factors affecting entry into RAC from hospital
      • 5.2 Short-term use of residential aged care following a period in hospital
      • 5.3 Survival of people admitted into permanent residential aged care
    6. People with selected health conditions
      • 6.1 Prevalence of selected conditions
      • 6.2 Characteristics of people leaving hospital
      • 6.3 Hospital care characteristics
      • 6.4 Length of stay in hospital
      • 6.5 Short-term use of residential aged care
    7. Refining the methods 
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Additional tables
      2. Data linkage
        • B.1 Transition events
        • B.2 Data
        • B.3 Linkage protocol
        • B.4 Linkage process: constrained event-based matching
        • B.5 Link accuracy
        • B.6 Estimates of total flow
      3. ICD-10-AM Edition 2 chapters
      4. English proficiency groups
      5. Logistic regression models for factors affecting admission into RAC from hospital
        • E.1 The model
        • E.2 Predicted probabilities
        • E.3 Odds ratios
      6. Survival analysis of people entering permanent RAC
      7. Suppression of small cells
        • G.1 Derived statistics within table cells
        • G.2 Small cells within totals or subtotals > 1,000
        • G.3 Small cells within totals or subtotals ≤ 1,000
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes