Specialised mental health service—number of seclusion events, total number N[NNN]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Number of seclusion events |
METEOR identifier: | 558083 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 13/11/2014 |
Definition: | The total number of seclusion events occurring within the reference period for a specialised mental health service. |
Data Element Concept: | Specialised mental health service—number of seclusion events |
Value Domain: | Total number N[NNN] |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Any return to seclusion after an initial intervention has ceased is recorded as a new event. The seclusion period is not broken when the consumer leaves the seclusion room to attend to personal hygiene or receive medication, food or fluids and is considered a continuous seclusion event. |
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Comments: | Reporting of this data element enables reporting of the nationally agreed seclusion key performance indicator Rate of seclusion. The rate of seclusion is calculated as the total number of seclusion events divided by the total accrued number of mental health care days provided by the admitted patient care service during the reference period, multiplied by 1,000. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Mental health seclusion and restraint NBEDS 2015- Health, Standard 13/11/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 DSS specific information: Data is limited to hospitals that provide acute specialised mental health public hospital services. The data element Specialised mental health service target population should be used to distinguish between General, Child and adolescent, Youth, Older person and Forensic services for each hospital. Data records for this collection may therefore differ to the Admitted service unit records provided for the Mental health establishments NMDS. |
Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Numerator
Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.2.4–Rate of seclusion, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Rate of seclusion, 2015 Health, Superseded 11/05/2016 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Rate of seclusion, 2016 Health, Superseded 14/06/2017 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Rate of seclusion, 2017 Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Seclusion rate, 2018 Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Seclusion rate, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Seclusion rate, 2020 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Seclusion rate, 2021 Health, Superseded 16/09/2022 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Seclusion rate, 2022 Health, Superseded 06/09/2023 KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 15J – Seclusion rate, 2023 Health, Superseded 29/05/2024 |