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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.

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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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Child Protection National Minimum Dataset, 2020–21 Data Quality Statement

757571 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description The data for this collection are collected from each of the eight state and territory departments responsible for child protection. In Australia, state and territory governments are responsible for statutory child protection. Each responsible department assists vulnerable children who have been, or are at risk of being, abused, neglected or otherwise harmed, or whose parents are unable to provide adequate care or protection.Departments responsible for child protection investigate, pr...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Child Protection National Minimum Dataset, 2021–22 Data Quality Statement

776828 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description The data for this collection are collected from each of the eight state and territory departments responsible for child protection. In Australia, state and territory governments are responsible for statutory child protection. Each responsible department assists vulnerable children who have been, or are at risk of being, abused, neglected or otherwise harmed, or whose parents are unable to provide adequate care or protection. Departments responsible for child protection investigate, p...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Data quality statement: National Hospital Morbidity Database 2013–14

611030 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Summary of key issues The NHMD is a comprehensive dataset that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. A record is included for each separation, not for each patient, so patients who separated more than once in the year have more than one record in the NHMD. For 2013–14, almost all public hospitals provided data for the NHMD. The exception was an early parenting centre in the Australian Capital Territory. The great...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Data quality statement: National Hospital Morbidity Database 2014–15

638202 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Summary of key issues The NHMD is a comprehensive dataset that has records for all separations of admitted patients from essentially all public and private hospitals in Australia. A record is included for each separation, not for each patient, so patients who separated more than once in the year have more than one record in the NHMD. For 2014–15, almost all public hospitals provided data for the NHMD. The exception was an early parenting centre in the Australian Capital Territory. The ...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Data quality statement: National Non-admitted Patient Care (aggregate) Database 2014–15

651341 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
· For 2014–15, the National Non-Admitted Patient Care (aggregate) Database (NNAPC(agg)D) included information on non-admitted patient care service events for essentially all public hospitals that provided non-admitted patient care in Australia (with the exception of an early parenting centre in the Australian Capital Territory). These data were provided according to the 2014–15 Non-admitted patient care hospital aggregate National Minimum Data Set (NAPC NMDS) for 610 public hospitals. In add...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector) 2010-11

482050 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector), or MINC (Private Sector), is a dataset that contains information on the number, nature and costs of private sector medical indemnity claims in Australia. Medical indemnity claims are claims for compensation for harm or other loss allegedly due to the delivery of health care. Data on medical indemnity claims may change over the life of a claim as new information becomes available or the reserve amount set against the likely cost of closi...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector) 2011-12

528731 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector), or MINC (Private Sector), is a dataset that contains information on the number, nature and costs of private sector medical indemnity claims in Australia. Medical indemnity claims are claims for compensation for harm or other loss allegedly due to the delivery of health care. Data on medical indemnity claims may change over the life of a claim as new information becomes available or the reserve amount set against the likely cost of closi...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector) 2012-13

582076 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector), or MINC (Private Sector), is a dataset that contains information on the number, nature and costs of private sector medical indemnity claims in Australia. Medical indemnity claims are claims for compensation for harm or other loss allegedly due to the delivery of health care. Data on medical indemnity claims may change over the life of a claim as new information becomes available or the reserve amount set against the likely cost of closi...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector) 2010-11

482047 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector), or MINC (PS), is a dataset that contains information on the number, nature and costs of public sector medical indemnity claims in Australia. Medical indemnity claims are claims for compensation for harm or other loss allegedly due to the delivery of health care. Data on medical indemnity claims may change over the life of a claim as new information becomes available or the reserve amount set against the likely cost of closing the claim i...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector) 2011-12

528745 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector), or MINC (PS), is a dataset that contains information on the number, nature and costs of public sector medical indemnity claims in Australia. These claims are claims for compensation for harm or other loss allegedly due to the delivery of health care.Data on medical indemnity claims may change over the life of a claim as new information becomes available or the reserve amount set against the likely cost of closing the claim is revised. We...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector) 2012-13

581968 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector), or MINC (PS), is a dataset that contains information on the number, nature and costs of public sector medical indemnity claims in Australia. These claims are claims for compensation for harm or other loss allegedly due to the delivery of health care.Data on medical indemnity claims may change over the life of a claim as new information becomes available or the reserve amount set against the likely cost of closing the claim is revised. We...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Mental Health Establishments NMDS 2021–22: National Mental Health Establishments Database, 2024; Quality Statement

785322 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
DescriptionThe National Mental Health Establishments Database (NMHED) contains data on specialised mental health care services managed or funded by state or territory health authorities in Australia. The NMHED is specified by the Mental Health Establishments (MHE) National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) (see link).The NMHED includes data from 1992–93 to 2021–22. Since 2005–06 data have been compiled as specified by the MHE NMDS. Prior to this (1992–93 to 2004–05), data were collected through the Nation...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

Mental health seclusion and restraint NBEDS 2015–: National seclusion and restraint database, 2021; Quality Statement

755198 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
DescriptionThe National Seclusion and Restraint Database was created in 2015 to enable reporting on the amount of seclusion and restraint in acute mental health hospital units. Data coverage is from 2008–09 for seclusion data and from 2015–16 for restraint data.The Database is held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and contains aggregate data on seclusion and restraint events, seclusion duration, episodes of care, mental health care days, and episodes with seclusion.Each y...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program screening data 2017–2019; Quality Statement

729628 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Summary of Key Issues National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) screening data are highly relevant for monitoring trends and outcomes from NBCSP screening participation. NBCSP data depend on the return of data forms from participants, general practitioners, colonoscopists and pathologists to the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR). Analysis by remoteness, socioeconomic status, Primary Health Network (PHN), Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) and Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) are base...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program screening data 2020–2022; Quality Statement

762061 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
DescriptionThe National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) is a national cancer screening program that started in 2006 and aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality from bowel cancer by using national invitation and screening analysis processes to actively recruit and screen the eligible target population for early detection or prevention of the disease. A ‘usual care’ model is then used for follow-up functions for those with a positive (abnormal) screening result. These people are encourag...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Cervical Screening Program screening data 2018–2019; Quality Statement

729622 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Summary of Key Issues These are data reported under the renewed National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) that commenced on 1 December 2017. NCSP data are now maintained in the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR), which is operated by Telstra Health (TH) on behalf of the Australian Department of Health. The renewed NCSP has a new screening pathway that is based on a woman's risk of significant cervical abnormality. It uses a Cervical Screening Test (CST) as the screening test, which i...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Incidence of heart attacks (acute coronary events), 2017 QS

630419 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This indicator estimates the incidence of acute coronary events from the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) and the National Mortality Database (NMD). The methodology for estimating the incidence of acute coronary events is based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) analysis of hospital and mortality data, and has been validated using linked data from Western Australia and New South Wales. The accuracy of the estimates is reliant on the accuracy and consistency of cod...
Standard: Health

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 09-Incidence of heart attacks (acute coronary events), 2018 QS

681633 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This indicator estimates the incidence of acute coronary events from the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) and the National Mortality Database (NMD). The methodology for estimating the incidence of acute coronary events is based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) analysis of hospital and mortality data, and has been validated using linked data from Western Australia and New South Wales. The accuracy of the estimates is reliant on the accuracy and consistency of cod...
Standard: Health

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 07-Proportion of babies born of low birthweight, 2020; Quality Statement

726258 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The data used to calculate this indicator are from the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC), which is a national population-based cross-sectional data collection of pregnancy and childbirth. Data supplied for the NPDC consist of the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS), as well as a series of additional data items. The Perinatal NMDS is an agreed set of standardised perinatal data elements for mandatory supply by states and territories to support national reporting. This measure exclu...
Standard: Indigenous

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 08-Tobacco smoking during pregnancy, 2020; Quality Statement

726260 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The data used to calculate this indicator are from the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC), which is a national population-based cross-sectional data collection of pregnancy and childbirth. Data supplied for the NPDC consists of the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS), as well as a series of additional data items. The Perinatal NMDS is an agreed set of standardised perinatal data elements for mandatory supply by states and territories to support national reporting. The Perinatal NMD...
Standard: Indigenous

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 09-Antenatal care, 2020; Quality Statement

726262 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The data used to calculate this indicator are from the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC), which is a national population-based cross-sectional data collection of pregnancy and childbirth. Data supplied for the NPDC consist of the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS), as well as a series of additional data items. The Perinatal NMDS is an agreed set of standardised perinatal data elements for mandatory supply by states and territories to support national reporting. The Perinatal NMDS...
Standard: Indigenous

National Perinatal Mortality Data Collection, 2013–2014; Quality Statement

696864 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description The National Perinatal Mortality Data Collection (NPMDC) is a data collection established within the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and collates data from state and territory sources to be used in the preparation of national perinatal death reports. The data set contains information on the deaths of babies in hospitals and in the community within the scope of the collection, which includes all live births and stillbirths of at least 20 weeks’ gestation or at least ...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

National Radiotherapy Waiting Times Database, 2018–19; Quality Statement

732790 | Data Quality Statement | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The National Radiotherapy Waiting Times Database (NRWTD) (METeOR identifier: 598445) is a compilation of data supplied to the AIHW based on the Radiotherapy Waiting Times National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) (METeOR identifier: 686202). This statement describes the quality of the data provided by participating radiotherapy providers for the period 2018–19.Each data record contains information relating to a course of radiotherapy that began in the reference period (that is, where the waiting period a...
Standard: AIHW Data Quality Statements

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