KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 04 – Average length of acute mental health inpatient stay, 2021– (Service level)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 04: Average length of acute mental health inpatient stay, 2021– (Service level) |
METEOR identifier: | 742471 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 17/12/2021 |
Description: | The average length of stay of in-scope overnight separations from acute psychiatric inpatient units managed by the mental health service organisation. NOTE: This indicator is related to Average length of acute mental health inpatient stay (Jurisdictional level). There are technical differences in the calculation methodologies between the Service level version and the Jurisdictional level version of this indicator due to different available data sources to construct this indicator. Caution should be taken to ensure the correct methodology is followed. |
Rationale: | Length of stay is a key driver of variation in admitted patient day costs and reflects differences between mental health service organisations in practice and casemix, or both. The aim of this indicator is to better understand the factors underlying variation (such as costs) as well as providing a basis for utilisation review. For example, it allows for the assessment of services provided to particular consumer groups against clinical protocols developed for those groups. |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: All public mental health service organisations acute psychiatric inpatient units. The following separation and associated patient days are excluded:
For jurisdictional level reporting the following separation and associated patient days are excluded:
Methodology:
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Computation: | Numerator ÷ Denominator |
Numerator: | Number of patient days in the mental health service organisation’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) accounted for by in-scope overnight separations during the reference period. |
Denominator: | Number of in-scope overnight separations from the mental health service organisation’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) occurring within the reference period. |
Disaggregation: | Service variables: target population, disorder specific services. Consumer attributes: diagnosis, age, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), remoteness, Indigenous status, involuntary status. |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Mean (average) |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Efficiency and sustainability |
Accountability attributes | |
Benchmark: | Levels at which the indicator can be useful for benchmarking:
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on behalf of the National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee |
Reference documents: | National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee (NMHPSC) 2013. Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services, 3rd edn. Canberra: NMHPSC. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 04 – Average length of acute mental health inpatient stay, 2020 (Service level) Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 |