Percentage of Overnight Discharges From the Mental Health and Addiction Service Organisation's Inpatient Unit(s) Where a Community Service Contact Was Recorded in the Seven Days Immediately Following That Discharge

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings

Care Transitions

Country

New Zealand

Publishing Organisation

Key Performance Indicator Programme, Mental Health and Addiction

Type of Quality Indicator

Process

IOM Quality Dimension

Timeliness

Domain

Follow-Up

Defining Attributes

Definition

Percentage of all acute inpatient discharges that were followed up, regardless of where that follow up occurred (Te Whatu Ora division, NGO or both).

Numerator

Count of acute inpatient discharges where a follow up community contact (for the same person) exists where: Community follow-up activity start date is between 1 and 7 days after acute inpatient discharge date.

Denominator

Count of acute inpatient discharges.

Exclusions

Use of Risk Adjustment

Risk Adjustments

Stratifications

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection

Administrative data

Data Collection Methods

Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD) is a Ministry of Health single national mental health and addiction information collection of service activity and outcomes data for health consumers. The data is collected from district health boards (DHBs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It is stored in the PRIMHD datamart which is part of the Ministry's national data warehouse.

Frequency of Data Collection

Quarterly

Frequency of Data Collection in Days

Reporting Methods

Data dashboards on the KPI Programme website of Mental Health and Addiction.

Reporting Frequency