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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Emergency Department visits deliberate self-harm
Alternate Name
ED visits deliberate self-harm
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
This indicator measures the number of emergency department visits for deliberate self-harm per 1,000 population
HQO Reporting tool/product
Public Reports (annual report, bulletins and theme reports)
Dimension
Effective
Type
Outcome
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Rate per 1,000 people
Calculation Methods
Numerator divided by the denominator times 1000
Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
Number of unscheduled ED visits for deliberate self-harm (DSH) in each calendar year
Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
General Ontario population as of July 1 for each calendar year
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized
Age and sex standardized
Data Source
National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
Data provided to HQO by
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
Reported Levels of comparability /stratifications (defined)
Region, Time
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Caveats and Limitations
Limitations include potential coding errors within administrative datasets. This indicator is only a measure of self-harm events that present to the emergency department. It cannot be used to estimate the prevalence of self-harm in the general population.
 
TAGS
Sector
Acute Care/Hospital, Other
Type
Outcome
Topic
Mental Health and Addiction
Dimension
Effective
Source
National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
08/02/2021 10:24:00