Total Days Stayed for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Hospitalisations
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Total days stayed, percentage of days stayed, average days stayed, 0.5% trimmed average, median, 25th and 75th percentiles, and crude and age-standardised rate of days stayed, for mental health and substance use disorder hospitalisations, by Canada and province/territory.
Numerator
Total days stayed for discharges in Canada for mental health and substance use disorders as the primary diagnosis and/or diagnosis category.
Denominator
Counts, percentages, means, medians, 25th and 75th percentiles, rates: Total days stayed. Crude rates: Total mid-year population
Exclusions
Records pertaining to newborns, stillbirths and cadaveric donors. 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 age group, recorded sex or gender, hospital type and diagnosis category and selected subcategory.
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), Statistics Canada