CDSM Checklists

A Medicare rebate for Comprehensive Medical Assessments was introduced in 2004 to support GPs in undertaking a full systems review of permanent residents of aged care homes.

Item 712 provides a Medicare rebate for a full systems review, including an assessment of the resident's health and physical and psychological function. It involves a GP taking a detailed relevant medical history, conducting a comprehensive medical examination, developing a list of diagnoses or problems, and providing a written summary of the outcomes of the CMA for the resident's records.

Information on EPC older age health assessments, including item descriptors, explanatory notes, questions and answers (for providers and consumers), a case study and a checklist.

Annual, voluntary health assessments for older Australians provide an opportunity for a GP to undertake an in-depth assessment of the patient's health. Health assessments cover the patient's medical, physical, psychological and social function. The GP should also assess whether preventive health care and education should be offered to the patient, to improve that patient's health and physical, psychological and social function.
 

Information on EPC case conferencing, including item descriptors, explanatory notes, questions and answers (for providers and consumers), a case study and a checklist.

An EPC case conference is a meeting of health and care providers to plan for the health and care needs of an individual patient with at least one chronic medical condition and complex multidisciplinary care needs requiring care from a GP and at least two other health or care providers. Case conferences may be undertaken for patients in the community (community case conferences), patients being discharged into the community from hospital or day hospital facilties (discharge case conferences), or people living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (Residential Aged Care Facility case conferences).