Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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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Registration status: | Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 |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. |
Episode of care—mental health legal status
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Episode of care |
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Definition: | A period of health care with a defined start and end. |
Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Mental health legal status |
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Definition: | An indicator of whether care was provided under relevant state or territory mental health legislation compulsory treatment provisions. |
Property group: | Legal characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Episode of care—mental health legal status Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/10/2023 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 07/12/2011 Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 |
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