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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Admitted patient care NMDS 2024–25

775630 | Data Set Specification | Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
The purpose of the Admitted patient care national minimum data set (APC NMDS) is to collect information about care provided to admitted patients in Australian hospitals.The scope of the APC NMDS is episodes of care for admitted patients in all public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free standing day hospital facilities and alcohol and drug treatment centres in Australia. Hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, correctional authorities and in Australia's off-shore territo...
Standard: Health

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2024-25

775611 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Alcohol and other drug treatment services national minimum data set (NMDS) is nationally mandated for collection and reporting.The NMDS covers: Publicly funded government and non-government agencies providing alcohol and/or drug treatment services. This includes community-based ambulatory services and outpatient services.The following services are currently not included in the coverage:services based in prisons and other correctional institutions;agencies that provide primarily accommodation...
Standard: Health

Community mental health care NMDS 2024–25

775620 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Community mental health care national minimum data set (CMHC NMDS) includes data about mental health service contacts provided by specialised mental health services for patients/clients in the community; that is patients/clients not admitted to admitted patient mental health care services or residential mental health care services.The scope includes:ambulatory mental health care provided by service units covering all target populations.The scope excludes:all care to admitted patients, includ...
Standard: Health

Elective surgery waiting times NMDS 2024–25

775622 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The scope of this national minimum data set (NMDS) is patients on, or removed from, elective surgery waiting lists, as defined in the Elective care waiting list episode—elective care type, code N data element (also known as 'waiting list category'), which are managed by public acute hospitals and/or state and territory health authorities. For those patients admitted to hospital, neither the patient's election status nor the hospital type where the patient is admitted, is material.From 2016–17 on...
Standard: Health

Government health expenditure NMDS 2014-

540601 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The scope of the Government health expenditure national minimum data set (GHE NMDS) is direct government and government-funded expenditure on health and health-related goods and services.The purpose of the GHE NMDS is to provide an enhanced understanding of the overall financial resources (recurrent and capital) used by the health system, and of unit costs and performance; to enable greater comparability of health expenditure data between jurisdictions and over time; and to provide a more effici...
Standard: Health

Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2024–25

775625 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The scope of the Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments national minimum data set (LHN/PHE NMDS) includes three levels of hierarchical reporting:The Public hospital establishments (PHE) component includes establishment-level data for public acute and psychiatric hospitals, and alcohol and drug treatment centres. Hospitals specialising in dental, ophthalmic aids and other specialised acute medical or surgical care are also included in PHE. Hospitals operated by the Australian Defe...
Standard: Health

Mental health establishments NMDS 2024–25

775628 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The scope of the Mental health establishments national minimum data set (MHE NMDS) is all specialised mental health services managed or funded by state or territory health authorities. The concept of a specialised mental health service is not dependent on the inclusion of the service within the state or territory mental health budget. Services funded by government from non-mental health specific budgets are considered in-scope for collection if they meet the definition of a specialised mental he...
Standard: Health

National Outcomes and Casemix Collection NMDS 2024-25

775846 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The purpose of the National Outcomes and Casemix Collection (NOCC) national minimum data set (NMDS) is to collect data on the mental health-related treatment of consumers of public specialised mental health services, and information on whether consumers improve following mental health care. A set of clinical measures are used to gather information about clinical mental health status and functioning. Measures can be completed by:clinicians about the consumer (known as clinician-rated),the consume...
Standard: Health

Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2024–25

775643 | Data Set Specification | Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
The scope of the Non-admitted patient emergency department care national minimum data set (NAPEDC NMDS) is patients registered for care in emergency departments in public hospitals where the emergency department meets the following criteria:purposely designed and equipped area with designated assessment, treatment and resuscitation areasability to provide resuscitation, stabilisation and initial management of all emergenciesavailability of medical staff in the hospital 24 hours a daydesignated e...
Standard: Health

Perinatal NMDS 2024–25

775714 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The scope of the Perinatal national minimum data set (NMDS) is all births in Australia in hospitals, birth centres and the community. The data set includes information on all births, both live births and stillbirths, of at least 20 weeks gestation or 400 grams birthweight.These data have two dimensions, which are the baby and the mother. All data relevant to the birth are conveyed in relation to one of these.
Standard: Health

Public dental waiting times NMDS 2022–

765394 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The purpose of the Public dental waiting times national minimum data set (PDWT NMDS) is to describe the information that must be collected to calculate the waiting times for two time periods in the treatment pathway for public dental services in Australia:the time between the date a person is placed on a waiting list and the date they are offered dental care; andthe time between the date a person is placed on a waiting list and the date they receive dental care.In the PDWT NMDS, person includes ...
Standard: Health

Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS 2018-

686202 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The main purpose of the Radiotherapy waiting times national minimum data set (RWT NMDS) is to describe the information that must be collected to calculate the waiting times for the following time period in the treatment pathway for radiotherapy services in Australia:The time between the patient's ready-for-care date and the date of the first megavoltage external beam radiotherapy treatment.Establishments in-scope are only those health-care establishments that provide megavoltage external beam ra...
Standard: Health

Residential mental health care NMDS 2024–25

775776 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The scope of the Residential mental health care national minimum data set (RMHC NMDS) is episodes of residential care for residents in all government-funded residential mental health care services in Australia, except those residential care services that are in receipt of funding under the Aged Care Act 1997 and subject to Commonwealth reporting requirements (i.e., report to the System for the Payment of Aged Residential Care (SPARC) collection).The following metadata are of particular relevance...
Standard: Health

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