Report user gu ide - HoNOSCA Health of the nation outcomes scales child and adolescent

What is this guide used for?

How is the PRIMHD summary report organised?

Collection completion and validity:

Outcomes-related information:

Service-related information:

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Collection completion and validity

Graph and Table 1: Percentage of service users with at

least one collection during period.

Graph and Table 2: Percentage of admission and discharge

collections completed.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

How is this useful?

Graph and Table 3: Percentage of invalid collections.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

How is this useful?

Target:

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Outcomes – changes in service user status information

Graph and Table 4: Average HoNOSCA total score (15

items) by collection type.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

Why is this useful?

Graph and Table 5: Average number of clinically significant

HoNOSCA items by collection type.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

Why is this useful?

HoNOS rating descriptors

4 Severe In

3 Moderate Clinical

2 Mild Range

1 Minor Not In

0 No Problem Clinical range

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Graph 6: Average number of clinically significant HoNOSCA items at admission, discharge by ethnic

group.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

Why is this useful?

Graph and Table 7a, 7b: Percentage of collections in clinical range on each HoNOSCA item.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

1. The difficulties faced by service users:

2. The outcomes that service users achieve:

How this is useful?

1. Identifying high needs:

2. Identifying what improves and what doesn’t improve:

3. Variation between services:

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Graph 8: Index of severity ratings by collection type.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

Why is this useful?

Other measures of service activity

Graph and Table 9: Index of severity by team.

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

How is this helpful?

Graph and Table 10: Collections with no HoNOSCA items in clinical range

What this information shows:

Interpretation:

How is this helpful?

Index of severity categories

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Other important considerations

Cross-sectional outcomes:

Minimum sample size for inclusion:

Confidence intervals:

Confidence

intervals overlap

Confidence

intervals don’t

overlap