KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 05J – Average cost per acute admitted patient day, 2016
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 05J: Average cost per acute admitted patient day, 2016 |
METEOR identifier: | 630372 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 14/06/2017 |
Description: | Average cost of a patient day provided by state/territory acute admitted patient mental health care service units. Note: This specification has been adapted from the indicator MHS PI 05: Average cost per acute admitted patient day, 2015 (Service level version) using terminology consistent with the National Health Data Dictionary. There are no technical differences in the calculation methodologies between the Service level version and the Jurisdictional level version of this indicator. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: State/territory acute admitted patient mental health care service units. Methodology:
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Computation: | Numerator ÷ Denominator |
Numerator: | Total recurrent expenditure on state/territory acute admitted patient mental health care service unit(s) during the reference period. |
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Denominator: | Number of patient days provided by state/territory acute admitted patient mental health care service unit(s) during the reference period. |
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Disaggregation: | Service variables: Target population Consumer attributes: Nil |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Mean (average) |
Data type: | Monetary amount |
Unit of measure: | Currency |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Efficient |
Accountability attributes | |
Benchmark: | State/territory level |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on behalf of the National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee |
Reference documents: | National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee 2013. Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services 3rd edn. Canberra. NMHPC. |
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 05J – Average cost per acute admitted patient day, 2017 Health!, Standard 14/06/2017 |