Minimising use of antipsychotic medicines

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Outcome Area
METEOR identifier:	624408
Registration status:	Health, Standard 12/09/2016
Description:	Treatment with an antipsychotic medicine is only considered if a patient with delirium is distressed and the cause of their distress cannot be addressed and non-drug strategies have failed to ease their symptoms.

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: 6a-Evidence of local arrangements to ensure that patients with delirium are not routinely prescribed antipsychotic medicines Health, Standard 12/09/2016 Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 6b-Proportion of patients with delirium prescribed antipsychotic medicines in hospital 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