Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Mental health legal status |
METEOR identifier: | 459215 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 |
Definition: | Whether a person is treated on an involuntary basis under the relevant state or territory mental health legislation, at any time during an episode of admitted patient care, an episode of residential care or treatment of a patient/client by a community based service during a reporting period, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Episode of care—mental health legal status |
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METEOR identifier: | 269785 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 |
Definition: | Whether a person is treated on an involuntary basis under the relevant state or territory mental health legislation, at any time during an episode of admitted patient care, an episode of residential care or treatment of a patient/client by a community based service during a reporting period. Involuntary patients are persons who are detained in hospital or compulsorily treated in the community under mental health legislation for the purpose of assessment or provision of appropriate treatment or care. |
Context: | Mental health care: This metadata item is required to monitor trends in the use of compulsory treatment provisions under State and Territory mental health legislation by Australian hospitals and community health care facilities, including 24-hour community based residential services. For those hospitals and community mental health services which provide psychiatric treatment to involuntary patients, mental health legal status information is an essential metadata item within local record systems. |
Object class: | Episode of care |
Property: | Mental health legal status |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Mental health legal status code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 471181 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 |
Definition: | A code set representing whether a person is treated on an involuntary basis under the relevant state or territory mental health legislation. |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The mental health legal status of admitted patients treated within approved hospitals may change many times throughout the episode of care. Patients may be admitted to hospital on an involuntary basis and subsequently be changed to voluntary status; some patients are admitted as voluntary but are transferred to involuntary status during the hospital stay. Multiple changes between voluntary and involuntary status during an episode of care in hospital or treatment in the community may occur depending on the patient's clinical condition and his/her capacity to consent to treatment. Similarly, the mental health legal status of residents treated within residential care services may change on multiple occasions throughout the episode of residential care or residential stay. |
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Collection methods: | Admitted patients to be reported as involuntary if the patient is involuntary at any time during the episode of care. Residents in residential mental health services to be reported as involuntary if the resident is involuntary at any time during the episode of residential care. Patients of ambulatory mental health care services to be reported as involuntary if the patient is involuntary at the time of a service contact. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 07/12/2011 Has been superseded by Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 19/06/2020 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Admitted patient care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 15/10/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Community mental health care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Community mental health care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Residential mental health care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 06/09/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Residential mental health care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 |