Definition
Proportion of separations from the mental health service organisation's acute psychiatric inpatient unit(s) for which a community ambulatory mental health service contact, in which the consumer participated, was recorded in the seven days following that separation.
Indicator Summary
An ambulatory mental health service contact is the provision of a clinically significant service by a specialised mental health service provider(s) for patients/clients, (other than those patients/clients admitted to psychiatric hospitals or designated psychiatric units in acute care hospitals), and those resident in 24 hour staffed specialised residential mental health services, where the nature of the service would normally warrant …
2011–12—Nationally (percentage only), by 2011 Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles.
2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 (revised), 2011–12—State and territory (numerator, denominator and percentage).
2011–12—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard Remoteness Structure) of consumer.
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.
Calculation rules
- Description
An ambulatory mental health service contact is the provision of a clinically significant service by a specialised mental health service provider(s) for patients/clients, (other than those patients/clients admitted to psychiatric hospitals or designated psychiatric units in acute care hospitals), and those resident in 24 hour staffed specialised residential mental health services, where the nature of the service would normally warrant a dated entry in the clinical record of the patient/client in question.
Should there be a discrepancy in the demographic variables of the consumer between collections, then the variables in the hospital collection should prevail.
2011–12—Nationally (percentage only), by 2011 Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles.
2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 (revised), 2011–12—State and territory (numerator, denominator and percentage).
2011–12—State and territory, by:
- Indigenous status
- remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard Remoteness Structure) of consumer.
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.
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