Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Mental health service contact date |
METEOR identifier: | 737299 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 20/01/2021 |
Definition: | The date of each mental health service contact between a health service provider and patient/client, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data Element Concept: | Mental health service contact—service contact date |
Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | Requires services to record the date of each service contact, including the same date where multiple visits are made on one day (except where the visits may be regarded as a continuation of the one service contact). Where an individual patient/client participates in a group activity, a service contact date is recorded if the person's participation in the group activity results in a dated entry being made in the patient's/client's record. For collection from community based (ambulatory and non-residential) agencies. |
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Comments: | The service contact is required for clinical audit and other quality assurance purposes. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 See also Service contact—service date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 See also Service contact—service date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Community mental health care NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 Community mental health care NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 09/12/2022 Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Community mental health care NMDS 2023–24 Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2023 Implementation end date: 30/06/2024 Community mental health care NMDS 2024–25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2024 Implementation end date: 30/06/2025 |