Included: all patients considered to require communication/swallowing therapy are included in this indicator.
Excluded: patients considered to not require communication/swallowing therapy are excluded from this indicator
Numerator = the number of patients receiving 45 minutes of communication/swallowing therapy per day communication/swallowing therapy was received.
Denominator = all the patient in the cohort considered to require communication/swallowing therapy. Patients who are considered to require communication/swallowing therapy but do not receive any motor therapy are included in the denominator.
The number of minutes of communication/swallowing therapy received per team is given in Q 4.6.3
The number of days on which communication/swallowing therapy is received per team is given in Q 4.5.3
Please note that SSNAP only records the total number of minutes of communication/swallowing therapy per team (Q 4.6.3) and the total number of days on which communication/swallowing therapy is received and does not take into account the number of therapy sessions or the length of the individual sessions. If a patient received therapy on 3 days and they received 15 minutes on the first day of therapy, 10 minutes on the second day of therapy and 25 minutes -split into two sessions of 10 and 15 minutes- on the third day of therapy then the total number of minutes entered on to SSNAP would be 50 minutes.
For team-centred results:
Divide the number of minutes of communication/swallowing therapy received at an individual team by the number of days the patient received communication/swallowing therapy at that team.
To calculate the percentage of patients achieving the target of 45 minutes of communication/swallowing therapy per day:
Count the number of patients achieving 45 minutes of communication/swallowing therapy per day.
For patient-centred results:
First, calculate the total number of minutes of communication/swallowing therapy each patient received by adding together the minutes of communication/swallowing therapy the patient received at each of the inpatient teams the patient was seen by.
Then, divide by the total number of days of communication/swallowing therapy the patient received across all inpatient teams.
To calculate the percentage of patients achieving the target of 45 minutes of communication/swallowing therapy per day:
Count the number of patients achieving 45 minutes of communication/swallowing therapy per day.
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For team centred |
For patient centred |
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All patients in the team-centred post-72 cohort (all teams) who are considered to require communication/swallowing therapy by the specific team |
All patients in the patient-centred post-72h cohort who are considered to require communication/swallowing therapy by at least one inpatient team that the patient has been seen by. |