Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 6a-Proportion of patients with delirium who were assessed for risk of functional decline, dehydration, malnutrition, falls, and pressure injuries
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 6a-Proportion of patients with delirium who were assessed for risk of functional decline, dehydration, malnutrition, falls, and pressure injuries |
METEOR identifier: | 745822 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 09/09/2021 |
Description: | Proportion of patients with delirium who were assessed for risk of functional decline, dehydration, malnutrition, falls, and pressure injuries. |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | For the numerator and denominator identify patients with delirium using the ICD codes specified in the Hospital-Acquired Complications (HACs) List - Specifications, worksheet 1, where complication group = 11. Delirium. The numerator includes patients with delirium who were assessed for risk of functional decline, dehydration, malnutrition, falls, and pressure injuries. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | The number of patients with delirium who were assessed for risk of functional decline, dehydration, malnutrition, falls, and pressure injuries |
Denominator: | The number of patients with delirium. |
Comments: | This indicator is based on the Key Principles for Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons (ACI, 2014). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN] |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | Agency for Clinical Innovation. Key Principles for Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons. Sydney: ACI, 2014. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Delirium Clinical Care Standard. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2021. |