KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 17bJ – Involuntary patient days, 2022
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 17bJ: Involuntary patient days, 2022 |
METEOR identifier: | 753277 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 06/09/2023 |
Description: | The percentage of admitted patient specialised mental health care patient days where the consumer has a mental health legal status of 'involuntary'. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: State/territory public admitted patient mental health service units. Only public hospitals are in scope for this indicator. Methodology:
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | Number of psychiatric care days where patients have a mental health legal status of ‘Involuntary’. |
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Denominator: | Total number of psychiatric care days for admitted patient mental health care services. |
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Disaggregation: | Service variables: acute/non-acute units, and target population. Consumer attributes: age, sex, and Indigenous status. Disaggregated data excludes missing or not reported data. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for reporting: 2020–21. This indicator refers to the inpatient setting only. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Day |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Safety |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Health Reform Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | State/territory health departments |
Accountability: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Other issues caveats: | The use of involuntary treatment is governed by either legislation (a Mental Health Act or equivalent) or mandatory policy within each state and territory. The definitions used within the legislation and policies vary between jurisdictions including, but not limited to, forensic-related legislation that applies to admitted patient mental health services. These variations should be recognised in the interpretation of the indicator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 17bJ – Involuntary patient days, 2021 Health, Superseded 16/09/2022 Has been superseded by KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 17bJ – Involuntary patient days, 2023 Health, Standard 06/09/2023 See also KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 17aJ – Involuntary hospital treatment, 2022 Health, Superseded 06/09/2023 |