National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Rate of community follow up within first seven days of discharge from a psychiatric admission, 2013
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 25-Rate of community follow up within first seven days of discharge from a psychiatric admission, 2013 |
METEOR identifier: | 497030 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Description: | Proportion of separations from the mental health service organisation's acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) for which a community ambulatory service contact, in which the consumer participated, was recorded in the seven days following that separation. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2013) Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Rate of community follow up within first seven days of discharge from a psychiatric admission, 2013 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | An ambulatory service contact is the provision of a clinically significant service by a specialised mental health service provider(s) for patients/clients, (other than those patients/clients admitted to psychiatric hospitals or designated psychiatric units in acute care hospitals), and those resident in 24 hour staffed specialised residential mental health services, where the nature of the service would normally warrant a dated entry in the clinical record of the patient/client in question. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of in-scope separations from the mental health service organisation's acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) for which a community ambulatory service contact, in which the consumer participated, was recorded in the seven days following that separation. |
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Denominator: | Number of in-scope separations for the mental health service organisation's acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s). |
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Disaggregation: | 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 — State and territory. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. |
Comments: | Most recent data available for 2013 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report: 2010-11. For 2013 NHA reporting, only disaggregation by state and territory is recommended, with advice on technical issues associated with additional disaggregation to be sought from the Mental Health Information Strategy Sub-committee (MHISS) and National Mental Health Performance Sub-committee (NMHPSC). The scope includes all public mental health service organisation's acute psychiatric inpatient units. The following separations are excluded:
The following community ambulatory service contacts are excluded from the calculation:
Same day separations are defined as inpatient episodes where the admission and separation dates are the same. Implementation of this indicator requires the capacity to track service use across inpatient and community boundaries and is dependent on the capacity to link patient identifiers. Where a mental health service organisation has more than one unit of a particular service type for the purpose of this indicator those units should be combined. The reliability of cross-jurisdictional comparisons on this indicator is dependent on the implementation of statewide unique patient identifiers as the community services may not necessarily be delivered by the same mental health service organisation that admits the patient. This measure does not consider variations in intensity or frequency of service contacts following discharge from hospital. This measure does not distinguish qualitative differences between phone and face-to-face community contacts. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN.N |
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Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Substantial work required, the measure requires significant work to be undertaken. Full implementation of this measure requires unique statewide patient identifiers – currently available in six of the eight states and territories and under development in the remaining two. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Rate of community follow up within first seven days of discharge from a psychiatric admission, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |