Search

METEOR’s search works in a similar way to other search engines. You can use keywords or terms to pull up related content. The below tips are specific to METEOR and will help you to find what you need.

Try searching using either a keyword, specific term or METEOR ID number.

METEOR ID search

If you’re a returning user and know an item’s METEOR ID, you can enter it in the search box. Clicking the search icon will take you straight to the item’s page.

Autocomplete

METEOR will automatically display suggestions for search terms as you’re typing. This predictive text will show you METEOR entries that exist for the topic you’re searching on. You don’t have to use any of these suggestions, but they may make your searching process faster and easier.

Pressing ‘tab’ will select the top suggestion. Otherwise, selecting from the list of suggestions will put the suggested search term into the search box. You can then click the search icon to find related content. Clicking anywhere on the search results will take you to the item’s page.

Spelling correction

METEOR will show search results with spelling correction. Misspelled terms can still be selected for search where relevant.

Dropdown options

The drop-down menus directly below the search text box allow you to limit the search results to any of the 18 content types in METEOR (see Learn about metadata to view the list), by item creation dates, and item revision dates.

Content types

Content types allow you to limit your search to various metadata building blocks and other topic or help content found in METEOR. See Learn about metadata to view a list of metadata item types that you can search in METEOR. Searching on Topic pages will give results from METEOR’s ‘non-metadata’ pages which explain metadata, how it is managed, how to use METEOR, and how to develop metadata.

Searching on Help will give results from all the pop-up information boxes that are linked to each metadata item. The Help search looks through all text from the METEOR Business Rules, which is accessed through the small ‘i’ icon used throughout the site.

Created date and Revision date

The Created and Revision date dropdown options limit your search to when an item was created or last revised. METEOR will search any time by default, or you can select or specify a custom period.

Custom search syntax

METEOR uses Lucene search syntax. This functionality can be useful to fine-tune your search results even more. Some of the commands include:

  1. Restrict search to the titles of items by using Name: Searchterm. Note that it has to be written exactly as Name, with the capital N. Using name will not work. It doesn’t matter if there’s a space around the colon or not.
  2. Force a second term to be included by using AND.
  3. Widen your search to include another option using the term OR.

For example, if you’re looking for something with the word ‘baby’ in the title you would use Name: baby. METEOR will also give you results for the plural of the search term, so if you search on ‘baby’ you will also get results for ‘babies’. If looking for something with two terms (‘baby’ and ‘admission’) you would use Name: baby AND admission.

Sort by

You can also display your search results with a range of options in the Sort by drop-down menu on the right. You can sort on Relevance, Most/Least Recently Created, Most/Least Recently Updated, and Alphabetically (A–Z and Z–A).

Clear

The Clear button resets the Search page.

Filtering search results

You can fine-tune your search results using the filters that appear in the left-hand menu after searching any term. These filters are dynamic and will only display options specific to your search term, for example, only registration authorities relating to your search term will be displayed. You can use multiple filters at once.

Some of the filters change depending on your role within METEOR. If you are using METEOR without an account, you can search on metadata item type, public registration statuses, METEOR ID, and registration authority. You are also able to compare two items.

If you are using METEOR without an account, you will not be able to save bookmarks for items you’re interested in. There are also some non-public registration statuses that you won’t be able to see.

If you wish to save bookmarks, you can sign up for a free METEOR account easily, just follow the Sign up now prompts after clicking on the Sign In button. If you have an account, you will also be able to subscribe to notifications about changes to specific items in METEOR.

If you are logged in to METEOR as a metadata developer, or any other official role, there are some additional search options. You will be able to restrict your search to the full range of registration status options, including non-public statuses. You will also be able to save bookmarks and subscribe to notifications about changes to items.

Each search result has a small ‘hamburger’ icon on the right . This gives you download links for the metadata item as a PDF or a Word document.


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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker

780756 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker (AHW) liaises with patients, clients, visitors to hospitals and other medical facilities and staff at health clinics, and works as a team member to arrange, coordinate and provide health care delivery in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community health clinics. Registration or licensing may be required (ABS 2019).
Recorded: Indigenous

Audiology assessment

529778 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An audiology assessment provides information about the status of middle ear function, diagnosis of hearing loss, and recommendations for clinical care and rehabilitation, such as communication strategies, classroom amplification, hearing aids, speech therapy and educational support. An audiological assessment can also monitor changes in hearing associated with medical and surgical management of middle ear conditions.
Standard: Indigenous

Chronic otitis media

682003 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The term used to describe a variety of signs, symptoms, and physical findings that result from the long-term damage to the middle ear by infection and inflammation. This includes the following: severe retraction or perforation of the tympanic membrane (a hole in the tympanic membrane ) scarring or erosion of the small, sound conducting bones of the middle ear chronic or recurring drainage from the ear inflammation causing erosion of the bony cover or the facial nerve, balance canals, or coc...
Standard: Indigenous

Ear health intervention

529946 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Ear health intervention is the course of action recommended by a health care professional following an audiology assessment which can include: provision of antibiotics removal of a foreign body surgery education rehabilitation.
Standard: Indigenous

First Nations regular client

788128 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
First Nations regular client refers to a First Nations client of a funded organisation that is required to report against the First Nations-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, a First Nations client who has attended the funded organisation at least 3 times in 2 years.
Standard: Indigenous

Funded organisation

787038 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Funded organisation refers to a First Nations-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care under its Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP).
Standard: Indigenous

Funded organisation

779194 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Funded organisation refers to an Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care under its Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP).
Superseded: Indigenous

Funded organisation

754991 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Funded organisation refers to an Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service funded by the Department of Health under its Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP).
Superseded: Indigenous

Gender

750032 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Gender is about social and cultural differences in identity, expression and experience as a man, boy, woman, girl, or non-binary person. Non-binary is an umbrella term describing gender identities that are not exclusively male or female.Gender is often used interchangeably with sex, however they are distinct concepts and it is important to differentiate between them.
Standard: Health, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Tasmanian Health, Aged Care, Indigenous
Qualified: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Geographic indicator

722655 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A classification scheme that divides an area into mutually exclusive sub-areas based on geographic location.
Standard: Health, Indigenous, Children and Families, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Tasmanian Health

Geographic indicator

327306 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A classification scheme that divides an area into mutually exclusive sub-areas based on geographic location. Some geographic indicators are:Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC, ABS cat. no. 1216.0, effective up until 1 July 2011)Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS, ABS cat. nos. 1270.0.55.001 to 1270.0.55.005, effective from 1 July 2011)administrative regionselectoratesAccessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA)Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Area Classificati...
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Children and Families
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Homelessness, Early Childhood, Disability, Tasmanian Health, Aged Care
Retired: Commonwealth Department of Health
Qualified: Youth Justice

Indigenous regular client

779198 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous regular client refers to an Indigenous client of an Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service that is required to report against the Indigenous-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, an Indigenous client who has attended the Department of Health and Aged Care-funded Indigenous-specific primary healt...
Superseded: Indigenous

Indigenous regular client

737993 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous regular client refers to an Indigenous client of an Australian Government Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation that is required to report against the Indigenous-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, an Indigenous client who has attended the Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation at least 3 times in 2 years.
Superseded: Indigenous

Indigenous regular client

755097 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous regular client refers to an Indigenous client of an Australian Government Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service that is required to report against the Indigenous-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, an Indigenous client who has attended the Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation at least...
Superseded: Indigenous

Presumptive

532056 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
To make a decision based on the information available.
Standard: Indigenous

Urban Centre and Locality

695681 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An area of concentrated urban development with a population of 200 people or more.
Standard: Health, Housing assistance, Aged Care
Recorded: Indigenous

Volunteer

327272 | Glossary Item | Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A person who willingly gives unpaid help in the form of time, service or skills through an organisation or group.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Health, Indigenous, Disability

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