sex Carer’s Definition: The biological sex of the carer. NEW ELEMENT This information about carers was not collected in HACC MDS v1.0. Reporting this element Take care if your Agency has been recording sex using the and or words “male” “female”, • the letters and You need to report this data element for carers by using the codes “M” “F”. and “1” “2”. Code Description 1 Male 2 Female 9 Not stated/inadequately described: Only use this code if it is not possible to find out from the carer their sex or to make an informed judgement about it. Data Dictionary See Sex on page 198.
Carer’s sex Definition: The biological sex of the carer. NEW ELEMENT This information about carers was not collected in HACC MDS v1.0. Reporting this element • Take care if your Agency has been recording sex using the words “male” and “female”, or the letters “M” and “F”. You need to report this data element for carers by using the codes “1” and “2”. Code Description 1 Male 2 Female 9 Not stated/inadequately described: Only use this code if it is not possible to find out from the carer their sex or to make an informed judgement about it. Data Dictionary See Sex on page 198.
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