Minimising use of antipsychotic medicines
Outcome Area Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Outcome Area |
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METEOR identifier: | 624408 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
Description: | Treatment with an antipsychotic medicine is only considered if a patient with delirium is distressed and the cause of their distress cannot be addressed and non-drug strategies have failed to ease their symptoms. |
Relational attributes | |
Indicator sets linked to this outcome area: | Clinical care standard indicators: delirium Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | ACSQHC (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care) 2015. Delirium clinical care standard. Sydney: ACSQHC. |
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