Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Symbols in tables
    • Abbreviations
    • Executive summary
  • Sections
    1. Background
      1. Report structure
    2. Types of transitions
    3. Data
      1. Hospital data
      2. Residential aged care data
    4. E linkage strategy
      1. Linkage protocol
      2. Linkage process: constrained E matching
      3. Validity of constrained E matching: results from comparing name-based and event-based linkage
    5. Linking the data
      1. Input data quality
      2. Linkage results
      3. Weighting for estimates of total flow
    6. Movements from hospital to RAC
      1. Age and sex
      2. Length of stay in hospital
      3. Principal diagnosis for transition event
      4. Care needs and moving into RAC
    7. Transitions from hospital to the community via RAC
      1. Type of RAC
      2. Age and sex
      3. Care needs
      4. People with selected conditions
    8. Conclusion
  • End matter
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures