KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 05 – Average cost per acute mental health admitted patient day, 2019 (Service level)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 05: Average cost per acute mental health admitted patient day, 2019 (Service level) |
METEOR identifier: | 712072 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 |
Description: | The average cost of a patient day within acute psychiatric inpatient units managed by the mental health service organisation. NOTE: This indicator is related to Average cost per acute mental health admitted patient day (Jurisdictional level). There are no technical differences in the calculation methodologies between the Service level version and the Jurisdictional level version of this indicator. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: All public mental health service organisations acute psychiatric inpatient units. Methodology:
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Computation: | Numerator ÷ Denominator |
Numerator: | Total recurrent expenditure within the mental health service organisation’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) during the reference period. |
Denominator: | Number of patient days occurring within the mental health service organisation’s acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) during the reference period. |
Disaggregation: | Service variables: target population; disorder specific services Consumer attributes: nil |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Mean (average) |
Data type: | Monetary amount |
Unit of measure: | Currency |
Format: | N[NNN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Efficient |
Accountability attributes | |
Benchmark: | Levels at which the indicator can be useful for benchmarking:
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Further data development / collection required: | The indicator can be accurately constructed using the Mental health establishments NMDS. |
Other issues caveats: | Casemix adjustment is needed to interpret variation between organisations–to distinguish consumer and provider factors. Patient day costs may be affected by provider factors beyond management control (for example high fixed costs in institutions during downsizing, structural or design problems with units that need to be countered through higher rostering levels). Costing methodologies are relatively underdeveloped within the mental health sector, and vary across organisations, impacting on the quality of this indicator. Further work is required to achieve consistency in costing methodologies. |
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 05 – Average cost per acute mental health admitted patient day, 2018 (Service level) Health, Superseded 13/01/2021 Has been superseded by KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 05 – Average cost per acute mental health admitted patient day, 2020 (Service level) Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 |