Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Discharges
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Number, percentage, and crude and age-standardised rate of discharges for mental health and substance use disorder hospitalisations, nationally and by province/territory.
Numerator
Discharges in Canada involving mental health and substance use disorders as the primary diagnosis and/or diagnosis category.
Denominator
Counts and percentages: Discharges in Canada involving mental health and substance use disorders as the primary diagnosis and/or diagnosis category.
Exclusions
Records from OMHRS and from specialty psychiatric facilities that submit to the DAD that are classified as non–mental health disorders and that are not otherwise classified. Records with age = missing from all contributing data sources. Records with recorded sex or gender = other or missing from all contributing data sources.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Direct standardisation, age-adjusted
Stratifications
By reporting level: National, Province/Territory.
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Hospital Mental Health and Substance Use (HMHS)
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Online visualization: www.cihi.ca/en/indicators/mental-health-and-substance-use-disorder-discharges