Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 8a-Proportion of patients with current or resolved delirium who had an individualised comprehensive care plan on discharge
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 8a-Proportion of patients with current or resolved delirium who had an individualised comprehensive care plan on discharge |
METEOR identifier: | 745829 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 09/09/2021 |
Description: | Proportion of patients with current or resolved delirium who had an individualised comprehensive care plan on discharge. |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Both the numerator and the denominator include patients with delirium that is current or resolved at the time of discharge from hospital. Identify patients with delirium using the ICD codes specified in the Hospital-Acquired Complications (HACs) List - Specifications, worksheet 1, where complication group = 11. Delirium. For a patient to be included in the numerator their individualised comprehensive care plan needs to be developed collaboratively with the patient and their carer. It should be documented, and include all of the following:
Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | The number of patients with current or resolved delirium who had an individualised comprehensive care plan on discharge. |
Denominator: | The number of patients with current or resolved delirium. |
Comments: | This indicator is based on the Ontario Senior Friendly Hospital Strategy Delirium and Functional Decline Indicators (Wong et al, 2012). |
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: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Delirium Clinical Care Standard. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2021. Wong K, Tsang A, Liu B & Schwartz R. The Ontario Senior Friendly Hospital Strategy Delirium and Functional Decline Indicators. Toronto: Ontario Local Health Integration Network; 2012.
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