KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 12 – Post-discharge community mental health care, 2018 (Service level)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 12: Post-discharge community mental health care, 2018 (Service level) |
METEOR identifier: | 633048 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 |
Description: | The percentage of separations from the mental health service organisation’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) for which a community mental health service contact, in which the consumer participated, was recorded in the seven days following that separation. NOTE: This indicator is related to Post-discharge community mental health care (Jurisdictional level). There are no technical differences in the calculation methodologies between the Service level version and the Jurisdictional level version of this indicator. |
Rationale: |
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Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: All public mental health service organisations acute psychiatric inpatient units. The following separations are excluded:
The following community service contacts are excluded:
Methodology:
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | Number of in-scope separations from the mental health service organisation’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) for which a public sector community mental health service contact in which the consumer participated, was recorded in the seven days following that separation. |
Denominator: | Number of in-scope separations for the mental health service organisation’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s). |
Disaggregation: | Service variables: target population. Consumer attributes: age, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), remoteness, Indigenous status. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Continuous Accessible Safe |
Accountability attributes | |
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 Admitted Patient and Community Mental Health Care National Minimum Data Sets because they do not share a common unique identifier to allow persons admitted into hospital to be tracked in the community services data. Additionally, states and territories vary in the extent to which state-wide unique identifiers are in place to allow accurate tracking of persons who are seen by multiple organisations. There is no proxy solution available. To construct this indicator at a national level requires separate indicator data to be provided individually by states and territories. Development of a system of state-wide unique patient identifiers within all mental health NMDSs is needed to improve this capacity. For this indicator, only direct contact with the consumer constitutes 'follow-up'. A growing body of evidence suggests that for some cohorts, follow-up with carers represents best practice (such as follow-up with parents for children and adolescents). Data development work to consistently capture information about carers in state/territory data systems is necessary to allow further development of this indicator. |
Other issues caveats: |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on behalf of the National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee |
Reference documents: | National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee (NMHPSC) 2013. Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services, 3rd edn. Canberra: NMHPSC. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 12 – Rate of post-discharge community care, 2015–2017 Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 Has been superseded by KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 12 – Post-discharge community mental health care, 2019 (Service level) Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 |