National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25–Rate of community follow up within first seven days of discharge from a psychiatric admission, 2022
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, 2022 |
METEOR identifier: | 740828 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 24/09/2021 |
Description: | Proportion of separations from the state/territory public acute admitted patient mental health care service unit(s) for which a community mental health service contact, in which the consumer or their carer/support person participated, was recorded in the 7 days following that separation. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2022) Health!, Standard 24/09/2021 |
Outcome area: | Hospital and Related Care National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Health!, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | A community mental health 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 residents in specialised residential mental health services) and/or their carer/support person, where the nature of the service would normally warrant a dated entry in the clinical record of the patient/client in question. Demographic variables of the consumer are to be based on the data from the hospital admission record, even if the result is null or invalid. 'Carer/support person' is defined by local legislation and policies for the relevant jurisdiction. |
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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 mental health service contact, in which the consumer and/or their carer/support person participated, was recorded in the 7 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: | 2019–20—Nationally (numerator, denominator and percentage only) and state and territory (numerator, denominator and percentage), by:
2019–20—State and territory (numerator, denominator and percentage). 2019–20—State and territory (percentage only), by:
2019–20—Consumer participated in the mental health service contact, nationaly (percentage only) and state and territory (percentage only), by:
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2022 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2019–20. The scope includes all public mental health service organisations' acute psychiatric inpatient units. The following separations are excluded:
The following community mental health 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 1 unit of a particular service type for the purpose of this indicator those units should be combined. All acute admitted mental health service units are in scope for this indicator, including short-stay units and emergency acute mental health admitted units. 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 separation from hospital. This measure does not distinguish qualitative differences between phone and face-to-face community contacts. For 2019–20 data, the 2016 SEIFA IRSD quintile and decile data will be produced using the ASGS geographical unit of Statistical Area Level 2. Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) ECT procedure codes are:
ACHI TMS procedure codes are:
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
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Accountability attributes | |
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. Collection of carer/support person contacts has been added in the 2021 indicator specifications onwards. However, not all jurisdictions will be able to supply this data. Data development work to consistently capture information about carers in state/territory data systems is necessary to allow further development of this indicator. As a result, national totals and disaggregations involving carer contacts are currently unavailable for this indicator. Time series data is also unavailable for contacts involving carer participation, and is only available for contacts where a consumer has participated. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2021. Mental health services in Australia. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 22 February 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mental-health-services/mental-health-services-in-australia |
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