Identifying and treating underlying causes

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Outcome Area
METEOR identifier:	624402
Registration status:	Health, Standard 12/09/2016
Description:	A patient with delirium is offered a set of interventions to treat the causes of delirium, based on a comprehensive assessment.

Relational attributes
Indicator sets linked to this outcome area:	Clinical care standard indicators: delirium Health, Standard 12/09/2016
Indicators linked to this outcome area:	Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 4a-Proportion of patients with delirium who have a comprehensive assessment to investigate cause(s) of delirium Health, Standard 12/09/2016 Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 4b-Proportion of patients with delirium who receive a set of interventions to treat the causes of delirium, based on a comprehensive assessment Health, Standard 12/09/2016
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Reference documents:	ACSQHC (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care) 2015. Delirium clinical care standard. Sydney: ACSQHC.

Outcome Area Attributes