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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Hospital admissions for a mental illness or an addiction
Alternate Name
Hospital admission rate for a mental illness or an addiction
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
Hospital admission rate for a mental illness or an addiction condition.
HQO Reporting tool/product
Public reporting
Dimension
Effective
Type
Outcome
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Rate per 1,000 people
Calculation Methods
Numerator/ Denominator * 1,000
Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
Number of hospital admission among adults for mental health & addictions issues
Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
Total number of Ontario residents 15 years and older.
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized
Age and sex standardized
Data Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
Data provided to HQO by
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
Reported Levels of comparability /stratifications (defined)
Age, Income, Region, Rurality, Sex, Time
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Caveats and Limitations
Individuals can be admitted to hospital more than once for the treatment of a mental illness, and they can have more than 1 condition at a given time. Hospitalization data, therefore, does not represent either the number of mental illnesses that led to the hospitalizations.
 
TAGS
Sector
Acute Care/Hospital, Home Care, Long Term Care, Primary Care
Type
Outcome
Topic
Mental Health and Addiction
Dimension
Effective
Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
12/09/2017 10:34:00