Table 1.

Data sources for project component 2: risk models

Data source	Description
Aged care client records	This electronic health and care management information system includes client demographic information, clinical data, client needs data, service and activity data, medications administered, social factors, and QoL measures.
EDDC	This collection provides information about patient presentations to the emergency departments of public hospitals in NSW, such as admission and separation dates, mode of separation, referral source, triage category and diagnoses.
APDC	This collection records all admitted patient services provided by NSW public hospitals, public psychiatric hospitals, public multipurpose services, private hospitals, and private day procedures centres. Data includes admission and separation dates, demographics, mode of separation, diagnosis and procedures.
RBDM registries	This dataset contains date and cause of death information for deaths occurring in NSW.

APDC, Admitted Patient Data Collection; EDDC, NSW Emergency Department Data Collection; NSW, New South Wales; QoL, Quality of Life; RBDM, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.