Summary of Contents
Foreword
Contacts
Comments
Abbreviations used in this Manual
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Summary of Contents

Part A Index
Definitions Related to Facilities
Definitions Related to Patients
Definitions Related to Episodes
Definitions Related to Counting Days
Definitions Related to Leave
Definitions Related to Acute Geriatric Admitted Services: Streams of Care
Definitions Related to Clinical Coding and DRGs
Definitions Related to Contracted Hospital Care
Departmental Circulars Relevant to PRS/2 and the VIMD
Publications Relevant to PRS/2 and the VIMD
Overview of PRS/2
Schedule Requirements
Interfacing

Part B Index
Input Records

Part C Index
Supplementary Code Lists

Part D Index
Transmission Control and Reconciliation Reports

Part E Index
Edit Messages

Part F Index
Request Suite Reports

Attachment
Are You of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin?
Information for Hospital Staff who are Responsible for Collecting Information on Patients who are Admitted to Hospital or Patients who attend the Emergency Department

Foreword

To fund public hospitals equitably under the casemix system and to maintain morbidity data on all Victorians, the Department of Human Services requires a minimum data set which accurately reflects health service activities, meets the requirements of the Victorian Annual Reporting Act 1983, and is consistent with the State's reporting requirements under the National Health Information Agreement.

The Department also has a statutory obligation under section 9 of the Victorian Health Act 1958 to establish a comprehensive information system on

To meet these objectives, all public and private acute hospitals, including acute facilities in rehabilitation and extended care institutions and day procedure centres, are required to report the relevant minimum data set of admitted patient activity. These data are compiled into the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Database.

This Manual provides comprehensive information for hospitals on how the PRS/2 system works, the source data definitions and reporting requirements for all service types.

DR CHRIS BROOK
Director
Acute Health Services

Contacts

For:	Contact:
	Department of Human Services Victoria
General assistance Queries re ICD-10-AM coding practices Queries regarding implementation of ICD-10-AM Queries about this Manual	PRS/2 Help Desk Tel. (03) 9616-8141 Fax (03) 9616-7629 Email PRS2.Help-Desk@dhs.vic.gov.au
Copies of Departmental circulars	Hospitals: your Regional Office Others: (03) 9616-8073 (phone)
	Allegiance Systems
Technical queries Customer support Enquiries re ICD-10-AM Library File Copies of Allegiance Systems circulars	PRS/2 Support Telephone (03) 9541-7500 Fax (03) 9543-3393
Address test tapes/diskettes to:	PRS/2 Customer Service
Address live tapes/diskettes to:	Operations Division Allegiance Systems 680 Blackburn Road Clayton 3168

Comments

If you have comments, suggestions, queries about this manual, please send them to the Department's Health Information Managers. For convenience, there is a sheet for your use. Click Here to download a MS Word Format (16k) file containing the fax forms.

Abbreviations Used in This Manual

AIMS
Agency Information Management System
AN-DRG
Australian National Diagnosis Related Group
CCIHT
Critical Care Inter-Hospital Transfer
CFS
Coded Funded Separations
DRG
Diagnosis Related Group
DVA
Department of Veterans' Affairs
HIM
Health information manager (also known as medical record administrator)
HITH
Hospital in the Home
ICD-9-CM
International Classification of Diseases - 9th Revision - Clinical Modification
ICD-10-AM
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification
ICU
Intensive care unit
IES
Inlier Equivalent Separations
MDC
Major Diagnostic Category
MV
Mechanical ventilation
NHDD
National Health Data Dictionary
NICU
Neonatal intensive care unit
NHT
Nursing Home Type (patient/care)
P/G
Psycho-geriatric
PRISM
Psychiatric Records Information Systems Manager
PRS
Patient Reporting System (one of Allegiance Systems' hospital management softwares)
PRS/2
Computer system by which hospitals transmit admitted patient data to Department of Human Services
SCN
Special care nursery
SLA
Statistical Local Area
TAC
Transport Accident Commission
UR No.
Unit Record Number
VIMD
Victorian Inpatient Minimum Database
VWA
Victorian WorkCover Authority
WIES
Weighted Inlier Equivalent Separations

the Department
In this manual, refers to the Victorian Department of Human Services.
Hospital
In this manual, can be taken to encompass facilities as defined in Definitions in Section A. A nursing home attached to a hospital is not part of this data collection.
Allegiance Systems
Previously Health Computing Services - Victoria Limited (trading as HCS Australia).