Person—level of psychiatric symptom severity, Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+ score code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Level of psychiatric symptom severity (HoNOS 65+ score) |
| METEOR identifier: | 640065 |
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| Definition: | An assessment of the severity of a person's psychiatric symptoms, as represented by a HoNOS 65+ score-based code. |
| Context: | Psychiatric symptom severity, persons aged 65 years and over. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—level of psychiatric symptom severity |
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | CODE 8 Unknown This code should be used for Health of the Nation Outcome Scale for elderly people (HoNOS 65+) values that are missing or recorded in the HoNOS 65+ tool as '9 - Unknown'. The HoNOS 65+ is used to rate adult mental health service users. Together, the scales rate various aspects of mental and social health. HoNOS 65+ is answered on an item-specific anchored 4-point scale with higher scores indicating more problems. Each scale is assigned a value of between 0 and 4, or 9 for unknown. The twelve scales are as follows:
The sum of the individual scores of each of the scales represents the total HoNOS 65+ score. The total HoNOS 65+ score ranges from 0 to 48, and represents the overall severity of an individual's psychiatric symptoms.
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| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority | ||||||||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority | ||||||||||||
| Reference documents: | Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017. Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS). Viewed 18 January 2017, | ||||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Person—level of psychiatric symptom severity, Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+ score code N
Supersedes Person—level of psychiatric symptom severity, Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+ score code N
See also Person—level of psychiatric symptom severity, Health of the Nation Outcome Scale score code N
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