The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC): a new casemix classification for residential aged care.

Objective: To develop a casemix classification to underpin a new funding model for residential aged care in Australia.Design, Setting: Cross-sectional study of resident characteristics in thirty non-government residential aged care facilities in Melbourne, the Hunter region of New South Wales, and n...

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Publicado en:Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 213; no. 8; pp. 359 - 364
Autores principales: Eagar, Kathy, Gordon, Rob, Snoek, Milena F, Loggie, Carol, Westera, Anita, Samsa, Peter David, Kobel, Conrad
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2020
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          Eagar, Kathy
          Gordon, Rob
          Snoek, Milena F
          Loggie, Carol
          Westera, Anita
          Samsa, Peter David
          Kobel, Conrad
        affil: Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW,
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          Health Services for Older Persons Economics
          Housing for Older Persons
          Nursing Homes
          Diagnosis-Related Groups Classification
          Mental Disorders Economics
          Health Services Economics
          New South Wales
          Australia
          Victoria
          Queensland
          Mental Disorders Nursing
          Activities of Daily Living
          Symptoms
          Nursing Service Economics
          Health Services Needs and Demand
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      ab: Objective: To develop a casemix classification to underpin a new funding model for residential aged care in Australia.Design, Setting: Cross-sectional study of resident characteristics in thirty non-government residential aged care facilities in Melbourne, the Hunter region of New South Wales, and northern Queensland, March 2018 - June 2018.Participants: 1877 aged care residents and 1600 residential aged care staff.Main Outcome Measures: The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC), a casemix classification for residential aged care based on the attributes of aged care residents that best predict their need for care: frailty, mobility, motor function, cognition, behaviour, and technical nursing needs.Results: The AN-ACC comprises 13 aged care resident classes reflecting differences in resource use. Apart from the class that included palliative care patients, the primary branches were defined by the capacity for mobility; further classification is based on physical capacity, cognitive function, mental health problems, and behaviour. The statistical performance of the AN-ACC was good, as measured by the reduction in variation statistic (RIV; 0.52) and class-specific coefficients of variation. The statistical performance and clinical acceptability of AN-ACC compare favourably with overseas casemix models, and it is better than the current Australian aged care funding model, the Aged Care Funding Instrument (64 classes; RIV, 0.20).Conclusions: The care burden associated with frailty, mobility, function, cognition, behaviour and technical nursing needs drives residential aged care resource use. The AN-ACC is sufficiently robust for estimating the funding and staffing requirements of residential aged care facilities in Australia.
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