Identification information

In this section we answer questions related to the Identification information screen.

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Questions

How do I select the correct coding option for ‘A8 – Reason for Assessment’?

How do I code for a person while they are an inpatient in the acute hospital setting?

How do I code for 'time since last hospital, stay' if the facility was a hospice?

How is 'first assessment' defined?

Answers

Question: How do I select the correct coding option  for ‘A8 – Reason for Assessment’? 

• When a person has never had an interRAI assessment of this type, for example first Home Care assessment, first LTCF assessment.
• When the person has had a similar interRAI assessment but has had a significant change in status
• When the person has had a similar interRAI  assessment but has had a significant change in status AND has just returned for an acute hospital setting

Answer:

• Download the factsheet How to code section A8 Reason for Assessment (PDF)

Question: How do I code Reason for Assessment for a person while they are an inpatient in the acute hospital setting?

Answer:

If this is a person, who has previous interRAI assessments,but is now in hospital and you use the HC/LTCF to assess the person before they are discharged from the acute hospital, then code 3- return assessment is appropriate.

 Question: How is 'First Assessment' defined for item - A8 Reason for Assessment?

Answer:

First Assessment is defined as the first time a person is assessed using that particular assessment tool, e.g. PC/HC/LTCF.

The interRAI CHA assessment is considered the same as the interRAI Home Care assessment. If there is a completed CHA + FS in a person's record  any HC completed after this will not be coded '1' - 'First Assessment'.

Question: How should A8 and B4 be coded in the Home Care assessment, when a person moves from a permanent residential facility to the Community?

A: The Home Care assessment completed after permanent discharge from a residential facility is a new ‘First Assessment’.

A8: Reason for assessment – code ‘1’ = First assessment

B4: Residential history over the last 5 years – code 4a ‘1’ = Yes

Question: How do I code for 'time since last hospital stay' if the facility was a hospice?

Answer:

This item intent is to capture a person's most recent hopitalisation as a measure of clinical instability and care trajectory. All inpatient stays are included here

Question: What is the difference between 'War Veteran' and 'War Disability Pension'?

Answer: 

War veteran

A person who has served in the New Zealand armed services and been deployed overseas to an area of conflict where there has been a perceived risk of injury or harm. This can be in a war or in a peace keeping capacity.

War Disability pension 

Is a pension awarded to a veteran who has incurred an injury or medical condition as result of overseas deployment in an area where there is a perceived risk to personal safety  in a war  or on a peace keeping mission. 

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