Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 5b-Proportion of patients with delirium who received multicomponent interventions to treat and manage delirium
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Short name:![]() | 5b-Proportion of patients with delirium who received multicomponent interventions to treat and manage delirium |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 745820 |
Registration status:![]() | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 09/09/2021 |
Description:![]() | Proportion of patients with delirium who received multicomponent interventions to treat and manage delirium. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description:![]() | For the numerator and denominator 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 the numerator, the multicomponent interventions to treat and manage delirium must be documented in the patient's medical record and include tailored interventions to treat any identified cause/s of delirium. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation:![]() | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator:![]() | Number of patients with delirium who received multicomponent interventions to treat and manage delirium. |
Denominator:![]() | The number of patients with 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. |