Percentage of Overnight Discharges From the Mental Health and Addiction Service Organisation's Acute Inpatient Unit(s) That Result in Readmission Within 28 Days of Discharge

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings

Care Transitions

Country

New Zealand

Publishing Organisation

Key Performance Indicator Programme, Mental Health and Addiction

Type of Quality Indicator

Outcome

IOM Quality Dimension

Effectiveness

Domain

Hospitalisation

Defining Attributes

Definition

Percentage of all acute inpatient discharges that were readmitted, regardless of where that readmission occurred.

Numerator

Count of acute inpatient discharges where a readmission occurs within 28 days.

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) DataMart 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