Assessor profession [MDS Item] Definition: The profession of all Aged Care Assessment Team members and non-team members participating in the person’s comprehensive assessment via extensive consultation or discussion of the person’s situation, condition or care needs that contributes to their care plan. Context: Identifying the range of disciplines or areas of expertise contributing to the client’s comprehensive assessment provides a picture of the extent to which Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) comprehensive assessments are multidisciplinary. It is acknowledged that a multidimensional approach to comprehensive assessment does not necessarily require contribution from more than one discipline. For this reason this data element is only seen as a proxy measure of the extent to which the Aged Care Assessment Program is providing comprehensive, multidimensional assessments of the care needs of frail older people. This data element is not limited to ACAT members. That is, the profession of any person who has a significant involvement in the client’s comprehensive assessment via extensive consultation or discussion that contribute to the care plan should be reported. Data type: Numeric Representational form: CODE Field size: Min: 1 Max: 2 Representational layout: NN Occurrences: May have up to 26 occurrences (any combination of codes 1 – 26). Code: Medical practitioners Generalist medical practitioner Geriatrician Psychogeriatrician Psychiatrist 26 Rehabilitation specialist Other medical practitioner Nursing professionals Nurse manager Nurse educator & researcher Registered nurse Registered mental health nurse Registered developmental disability nurse Other nursing professional Health professionals Occupational therapist Physiotherapist Speech pathologist/therapist Podiatrist Pharmacist Aboriginal health worker Other health professional Social welfare professionals Social worker Welfare & community worker
Business rule: Not Applicable Related documents: National Transaction File Format Item 164 Source document: Developed for the Aged Care Assessment Program Minimum Data Set Version 1.0 Supplement, 2005. Source organisation: Lincoln Centre for Ageing and Community Care Research Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Comments:
Delegation date [MDS Item] Definition: The date on which Australian Government funded aged care is either approved or not approved by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) Delegate. This is the date an approval for care takes effect (with the exception of emergency care). Context: The delegation date is when the ACAT Delegate signs and dates the ACCR and must be on or after the Assessment end date. This is the date an approval for care takes effect (with the exception of emergency care). Delegates need to assess if the evidence provided is relevant for them to logically support their decision to approve a person for care. Evidence includes information, documents and other material that can be used to demonstrate the existence of a fact. Documents supporting information include the Statement of Application, completed ACCR and assessment documentation including the outcome of any assessment tools applied by the assessor, verbal evidence, information from the GP and hospital and rehabilitation file notes. Data type: Numeric Representational form: DATE Field size: Min: 10 Max: 10 Representational layout: DD/MM/YYYY Occurrences: May have only one occurrence. Code: Valid date Guide for use: The date should always be recorded as a 10-character valid date comprising day, forward slash, month, forward slash, and year. Year should always be recorded in its full 4-digit format. For days and months with a numeric value of less than 10, ACATs should use leading zeros to ensure that the date contains the required 10 characters. For example, for a comprehensive assessment where the ACAT Delegate approved the client for care on the 1st of July, 2009, the Delegation date would be reported as 01/07/2009. For an approval to take effect the ACAT Delegate must sign and date the ACCR. It is not the date the ACCR is completed or signed by the person seeking care and will most often be later than the assessment end date. The delegation date must never be backdated. ACCR Part 6 – Approval as a care recipient ACAP MDS Yes Business Rules:  If Delegation date is not blank, the date must be valid If Delegation date is not blank, then Delegation date must be equal to or later than Assessment end date Required: Conditional Related document: Aged Care Act 1997 Section 22–5 National Transaction File Format Item 162 Source document: Aged Care Assessment Program Guidelines 2006 Source organisation: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Oceania and Antarctica Australia (includes External Territories) 1101 Australia 1102 Norfolk Island 1199 Australian External Territories, nec New Zealand 1201 New Zealand Melanesia 1301 New Caledonia 1302 Papua New Guinea 1303 Solomon Islands 1304 Vanuatu Micronesia 1401 Guam 1402 Kiribati 1403 Marshall Islands 1404 Micronesia, Federated States of 1405 Nauru 1406 Northern Mariana Islands 1407 Palau Polynesia (excludes Hawaii) 1501 Cook Islands 1502 Fiji 1503 French Polynesia 1504 Niue 1505 Samoa 1506 Samoa, American 1507 Tokelau 1508 Tonga 1511 Tuvalu 1512 Wallis and Futuna 1513 Pitcairn Islands 1599 Polynesia (excludes Hawaii), nec Antarctica 1601 Adelie Land (France) 1602 Argentinian Antarctic Territory 1603 Australian Antarctic Territory 1604 British Antarctic Territory 1605 Chilean Antarctic Territory 1606 Queen Maud Land (Norway) 1607 Ross Dependency (New Zealand) North-West Europe United Kingdom 2101 Channel Islands 2102 England 2103 Isle of Man 2104 Northern Ireland 2105 Scotland 2106 Wales 2107 Guernsey 2108 Jersey Ireland 2201 Ireland Western Europe 2301 Austria 2302 Belgium 2303 France 2304 Germany 2305 Liechtenstein 2306 Luxembourg 2307 Monaco 2308 Netherlands 2311 Switzerland Northern Europe 2401 Denmark 2402 Faeroe Islands 2403 Finland 2404 Greenland 2405 Iceland 2406 Norway 2407 Sweden 2408 Aland Islands 3 Southern and Eastern Europe Southern Europe 3101 Andorra 3102 Gibraltar 3103 Holy See 3104 Italy 3105 Malta 3106 Portugal 3107 San Marino 3108 Spain South Eastern Europe 3201 Albania 3202 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3203 Bulgaria 3204 Croatia 3205 Cyprus 3206 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) 3207 Greece 3208 Moldova 3211 Romania 3212 Slovenia 3213 Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of 3214 Montenegro 3215 Serbia 3216 Kosovo Eastern Europe 3301 Belarus 3302 Czech Republic 3303 Estonia 3304 Hungary 3305 Latvia 3306 Lithuania 3307 Poland 3308 Russian Federation 3311 Slovakia 3312 Ukraine 0912 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 4 North Africa and the Middle East East North Africa 4101 Algeria 4102 Egypt 4103 Libya 4104 Morocco 4105 Sudan 4106 Tunisia 4107 Western Sahara 4108 Spanish North Africa 4199 North Africa, nec Middle East 4201 Bahrain 4202 Gaza StriTand West Bank 4203 Iran 4204 Iraq 4205 Israel 4206 Jordan 4207 Kuwait
0572 & somatoform disorders Phobic & anxiety disorders (includes agoraphobia, panic disorder) Nervous tension/stress disorder Other neurotic, stress-related & somatoform disorders Intellectual & developmental disorders disability Other developmental disorders (includes autism, Rett’s syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, developmental learning disorders, specific developmental disorders of speech and language, specific developmental disorder of motor function (e.g. dyspraxia)) 1 In any analysis of ‘Diseases of the nervous system’ code 0500 ‘Dementia in Alzheimer’s disease’ should be grouped with 0600. n.e.c—not elsewhere classified, n.o.s—not otherwise specified ACAP code Health condition ACAP code Health condition