Aged care health status algorithms

Researchers within the Aged Care Evaluation and Research (ACER) team here at Macquarie University have developed two aged care health status algorithms. The algorithms are free to access and download by national and international researchers looking to identify health conditions amongst older adults in residential aged care (nursing home) settings.

The two algorithms will identify health conditions using medication administration data and free text fields from electronic health records.

These algorithms were developed for use with electronic data (EHR and medication administration records) from residential aged care facilities (also called nursing homes). They may not be appropriate or reliable to use with data from other care settings and also not appropriate to use for younger populations.

To better understand which conditions are likely to be underreported in ACFI assessments compared to our algorithms please read our paper.

For a more detailed information about the aged care health status algorithms please see the Aged care health status algorithms FAQs.

To submit an application for use, please ensure you have read and agreed to the terms and conditions within the online application form.