The Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Centre includes a cross-sectoral data platform designed to monitor the health, service utilisation, medication use, social welfare, mortality, and other outcomes of people receiving aged care services in Australia. ROSA brings together datasets collected from the aged care, health care and social welfare sectors by the Commonwealth and state health authorities, to provide a whole picture of the ageing pathway for individuals in aged care. ROSA produces evidence to guide decision-making for quality, coordinated, efficient, innovative and age-friendly services. For the Prospective cohort, ROSA also reports annual risk-adjusted benchmarked outcome measures back to South Australian aged care service providers for the purposes of quality improvement.

ROSA consists of two cohorts: 1) Prospective cohort (South Australia only) designed as a Clinical Quality Registry to monitor quality of care and health outcomes experienced by South Australians seeking aged care services each year and 2) National cohort (de-identified, retrospective data).

Prospective ROSA cohort: includes existing information captured by the Commonwealth National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse, Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the National Death Index, linked to South Australian hospitalisation, emergency department presentations and, when made available, ambulance services datasets.

National ROSA cohort: includes existing information captured by the Commonwealth National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse, Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, the National Death Index, the Department of Social Services Data Over Multiple Individuals Occurrence and state-based hospitalisation, emergency department presentations from the states of South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales (plus ambulance service data from South Australia and New South Wales).

Researchers seeking access to ROSA require an established collaboration and partnership with the ROSA Research Centre (governed by the ROSA Steering Committee members and supporting partners) and must liaise with the ROSA Research Centre/Director to obtain several approvals from all overarching ethics committees, research governance offices and data custodians who need to review and approve all requests for access to linked data included in the ROSA Data Platform.

Quality Improvement and Research. ROSA is designed to monitor the health, service utilisation, medication use, social welfare, mortality, and other outcomes of people receiving aged care services in Australia.

Historical data: National. Prospective data: South Australian state only.

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