KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 01J – Change in consumer's clinical outcomes, 2016
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 01J: Change in consumer's clinical outcomes, 2016 |
METEOR identifier: | 630358 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 14/06/2017 |
Description: | The proportion of mental health-related episodes of care where:
was identified between baseline and follow-up of completed outcome measures. NOTE: This specification has been adapted from the indicator MHS PI 01: Change in consumer's clinical outcomes, 2015– (Service level version) using terminology consistent with the National Health Data Dictionary. There are technical differences in the consumer groups listed in the methodology section between the Service level version and the Jurisdictional level version of this indicator. Caution should be taken to ensure the correct methodology is followed. |
Rationale: | State/territory specialised mental health services aim to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. Their effectiveness can be compared using routinely collected measures. This will assist in service benchmarking and quality improvement. The implementation of routine mental health outcome measurement in Australia provides the opportunity to monitor the effectiveness of mental health services across jurisdictions. |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: State/territory Specialised mental health service. The following episodes of care are excluded:
Methodology:
Definition notes:
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 Calculated separately for each consumer group. |
Numerator: | Number of completed or ongoing episodes of mental health care with completed outcome measures, partitioned by setting, where significant improvement/significant deterioration/no significant change was identified between baseline and follow-up within the reference period. |
Numerator data elements: | |
Denominator: | Number of completed or ongoing episodes of mental health care with completed outcome measures, partitioned by setting within the reference period. |
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Disaggregation: | Service variables: Setting (Group A, B or C) Consumer attributes: Age (0-17, 18-64, 65+) |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Effective |
Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Accountability: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Benchmark: | State/territory level |
Further data development / collection required: | The NOCC, maintained by the Department of Health compiles all state and territory consumer outcomes data on an annual data submission basis. However, NOCC does not allow linkage of episodes of care across financial years. This limitation does not exist for states and territories own data sets. Compared to data constructed from state and territory datasets and using complete episodes, this limitation is likely to result in calculation of the indicator based on a significantly smaller pool of episodes. It may also have a systematic effect on apparent results on this indicator, but the direction and size of this effect has not been systematically tested. |
Other issues caveats: | Change in consumers’ clinical outcomes is not presented for states and territories with less than 200 unique consumer outcomes identifiable within the reference period. States and territories excluded from individual publication are used to calculate the change in consumers’ clinical outcomes for Australia. Greater variability in HoNOS scores can be expected, if effect sizes were calculated using ‘locally’ derived standard deviations. Statistically, fewer observations generally give rise to greater variability. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee 2013. Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services 3rd edn. Canberra. NMHPC. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 01J – Change in consumer's clinical outcomes, 2015 Health, Superseded 11/05/2016 Has been superseded by KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 01J – Change in consumer's clinical outcomes, 2017 Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 |