Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 6b-Proportion of patients with delirium who experienced dehydration, malnutrition, a fall resulting in fracture or other intracranial injury, or a pressure injury during their hospital stay
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Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 6b-Proportion of patients with delirium who experienced dehydration, malnutrition, a fall resulting in fracture or other intracranial injury, or a pressure injury during their hospital stay |
METEOR identifier: | 745824 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 09/09/2021 |
Description: | Proportion of patients with delirium who experienced dehydration, malnutrition, a fall resulting in fracture or other intracranial injury, or a pressure injury during their hospital stay. |
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Computation description: | For the numerator and denominator identify patients with delirium using the ICD codes specified in the Hospital-Acquired Complications (HACs) List - Specifications, worksheet 1, where complication group = 11. Delirium. For the numerator include separations that meet the coding criteria for dehydration, malnutrition, fall resulting in fracture or other intracranial injury and pressure injury (stage III, IV, unspecified, unstageable pressure injury and suspected) acquired in hospital (Table A). Use Episode of admitted patient care—condition onset flag, code N to identify whether a diagnosis occurred during the episode of admitted patient care. Table A: Numerator criteria
Presented as a percentage.
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 | |||||||||||||||
Numerator: | The number of patients with delirium who experienced dehydration, malnutrition, a fall resulting in fracture or other intracranial injury, or a pressure injury during their hospital stay. | |||||||||||||||
Denominator: | The number of patients with delirium. | |||||||||||||||
Comments: | This indicator is based on the Key Principles for Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons (ACI, 2014). | |||||||||||||||
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Representation class: | Percentage | |||||||||||||||
Data type: | Real | |||||||||||||||
Unit of measure: | Person | |||||||||||||||
Format: | N[NN] | |||||||||||||||
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | |||||||||||||||
Reference documents: | Agency for Clinical Innovation. Key Principles for Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons. Sydney: ACI, 2014. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Delirium Clinical Care Standard. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2021.
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