Mental Health Outpatient Visits of Adults per 1000 Persons Aged 18 and Over
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator gives the total number of mental health outpatient visits in primary health care and outpatient visits in psychiatry per a thousand persons aged 18 and over. Primary health care visits include visits to physicians and other practitioners at mental health clinics in health centres. Psychiatry includes all outpatient visits in specialised health care within the speciality of (adult) psychiatry in all municipal hospitals, including specialist-led health-centre hospitals. The population data refer to year-end data.
Numerator
Total number of mental health outpatient services
Denominator
1000 inhabitants
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Gender total; Municipality, sub-region, region, the well-being services county, hospital district, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, university hospital special responsibility area, Mainland Finland/Åland, whole country
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Primary health care (THL)