KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 08 – Proportion of population receiving clinical mental health care, 2015–2017
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 08: Proportion of population receiving clinical mental health care, 2015–2017 |
METEOR identifier: | 584223 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 |
Description: | Percentage of consumers who reside in the mental health service organisation’s defined catchment area who received care from a public sector mental health service (including inpatient, ambulatory and residential). NOTE: This indicator is related to KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 08J – Proportion of population receiving clinical mental health care, 2015 (Jurisdictional level version). There are no technical differences in the calculation methodologies between the Service level version and the Jurisdictional level version of this indicator. |
Rationale: | The issue of unmet need has become prominent since the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing indicated that a majority of people affected by a mental disorder do not receive treatment. The implication for performance indicators is that a measure is required to monitor population treatment rates and assess these against what is known about the distribution of mental disorders in the community. Access issues figure prominently in concerns expressed by consumers and carers about the mental health care they receive. More recently, these concerns have been echoed in the wider community. Most jurisdictions have organised their mental health services to serve defined catchment populations, allowing comparisons of relative population coverage to be made between organisations. |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: All public mental health service organisations. The following exclusions apply:
Methodology:
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | Number of consumers who reside in the defined catchment area who received services from the mental health service organisation’s specialised mental health services within in the reference period. |
Denominator: | Number of consumers who reside in the defined mental health service organisation’s catchment area within the reference period. |
Disaggregation: | Service variables: Nil Consumer attributes: Age, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), remoteness, Indigenous status |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessible |
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: | Levels at which indicator can be useful for benchmarking:
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Further data development / collection required: | This indicator cannot be accurately constructed using the mental health-related national minimum data sets (NMDSs) because the data sets do not include unique patient identifiers that allow linkage across data sets. A proxy solution is to use only the Community Mental Health Care NMDS, which is estimated to include more than 90% of all persons by public mental health services. The accuracy of this solution is limited by the fact that states and territories vary in the extent to which unique patient identifiers are available on a state-wide basis. Accurate construction of this indicator at a national level requires separate indicator data to be provided individually by states and territories. Development of state-wide unique patient identifiers within all mental health-related NMDSs is needed to improve this capacity. |
Other issues caveats: |
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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: | Has been superseded by KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 08 – Population access to specialised clinical mental health care, 2018 (Service level) Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 |