KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 16 – Restraint rate, 2020– (Service level)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | MHS PI 16: Restraint rate, 2020– (Service level) |
METEOR identifier: | 725536 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 13/01/2021 |
Description: | Number of restraint events per 1,000 patient days within public acute admitted patient specialised mental health service units. |
Rationale: |
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Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Coverage/Scope: All public mental health service organisations admitted patient services. Methodology:
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 1,000 |
Numerator: | Total number of mechanical restraint events. Total number of physical restraint events. |
Denominator: | Number of accrued mental health care days within the mental health service organisation’s inpatient unit(s) during the reference period, partitioned by acute and non-acute inpatient mental health services. |
Disaggregation: | Service variables: Service variables: target population, program type. Consumer attributes: age, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), remoteness, Indigenous status |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Episode |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Safety |
Accountability attributes | |
Benchmark: | Levels at which the indicator can be useful for benchmarking:
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Further data development / collection required: | Collection of restraint data at the national level occurs via the Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint National best endeavours data set (SECREST NBEDS), a data collection under the governance of the Safety and Quality Partnership Standing Committee, a subcommittee, of the Mental Health Principal Committee (MHPC). Data on the characteristics of the consumers subject to restraint is not currently available. Data development activity to expand the SECREST NBEDS to include consumer demographic information is under consideration by the Mental Health Information Strategy Standing Committee (MHISSC) and SQPSC. |
Other issues caveats: |
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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. National Mental Health Working Group (2005) National safety priorities in mental health: a national plan for reducing harm, Health Priorities and Suicide Prevention Branch, Department of Health and Ageing, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 16 – Restraint rate, 2019 (Service level) Health!, Superseded 16/02/2021 Has been superseded by KPIs for Australian Public Mental Health Services: PI 16 – Restraint rate, 2021– (Service level) Health!, Standard 17/12/2021 |