Thursday, June 23, 2022

Abstract: Reviewing the requirement for sex as a category variable

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This is an abstract discussion tape-recorded for the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority’s (IHPA) Activity Based Funding Conference 2022, which was held practically from 5 to 6 May 2022.

About this abstract

Several Australian jurisdictions have actually just recently been examining the requirement to gather and report an individual’s sex for files such as birth certificates and passports. These modifications have actually been triggered by the conflation in between the biological principle of an individual’s sex and the sociological idea of an individual’s gender. This is an especially bothersome concern for individuals who are transgender as the information showing their identity does not match what is self-reported– causing poorer quality, or inaccurate, information on specific populations.

Sex is presently gathered in Australian health information sets such as the Admitted Patient Care National Minimum Data Set needed for public and personal health centers. Pertinent medical details on illness and interventions is likewise gathered utilizing analytical health categories which contain edits that are developed to promote information quality. Provided the conflation in between sex and gender, the edits related to these analytical health categories have actually been reported by Australian jurisdictions as limiting. This has actually resulted in information being controlled in order to prevent creating mistakes for information submissions, in turn causing inaccurate information being reported.

Presenter

– Mr James Katte, Manager, Classifications, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

James Katte is a licensed health details supervisor with experience throughout public and economic sector healthcare facilities and has actually operated in nationwide and global category advancement over the previous 6 years. James is the Acute Care Classification Manager at the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority establishing ICD-10- AM/ACHI/ACS Twelfth Edition and helping advancement for Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups Version 11.0.

www.ihpa.gov.au
www.abfconference.com.au

http://medicalbillingcertificationprograms.org/abstract-reviewing-the-requirement-for-sex-as-a-category-variable/

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