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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

313440 (v.1) Casemix and Data Quality 382

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

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Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     313435 (v.1) Clinical Classifications 381
    OR
    306320 (v.3) Nosology 385 or any previous version
AND
    313436 (v.1) Health Data and Information Analysis 381 or any previous version
    OR
    2904 (v.7) Health Information Systems 283
Syllabus: Introduction to the history of casemix, including the development of Australian Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and structure and logic of te DRG. Application of casemix measures and casemix classifications other than DRGs. Identification of casemix quality issues. Planning, funding and management with casemix information. A review of data quality measures such as systems edits, quality indicators, and auditing of coded health records. Uses and importance of coded data.
Field of Education: 080313 Public and Health Care Administration
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External