Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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METEOR identifier: | 268961 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Tasmanian Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |
Definition: | The period of contact, with defined dates of commencement and cessation, between a client and a treatment provider or team of providers in which there is no change in the main treatment type or the principal drug of concern, and there has not been a non-planned absence of contact for greater than three months. |
Context: | Alcohol and drug treatment services. This concept is required to provide the basis for a standard approach to recording and monitoring patterns of service utilisation by clients. |
Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs National Minimum Data Set - Working Group |
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