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Service episode—service cessation reason

Data Element Concept Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term269396
Registration status:Help on this term

Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005

Disability, Standard 07/10/2014

Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010

Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010

Definition:Help on this termThe reason the service episode ceased.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Service episode
Definition:Help on this termA period of time during which a client receives assistance from an agency.
Context:Help on this term

Service provision and planning:

The concept of a service episode (and associated metadata items) is necessary for the analysis, of the length of provision of assistance to clients. In conjunction with information about the amount and type of assistance received by clients, information about the length of the service episode also gives some indication of the intensity of assistance provided by agencies.

A client's service episode always begins and ends with dates that mark the first and last time that the person received assistance from the agency. That is, a service episode will always begin and end with service event (see metadata item the service event).

The pathway or process followed by a person entering or exiting from a service episode varies from one agency to another and from one type of assistance to another. It cannot be assumed, for example, that every client has undergone an assessment (or the same type of assessment) before entering a service episode. At times, a client may receive services from an agency on the basis of a referral from an established source with which the agency has well-developed referral protocols. At other times, a client who has been previously assisted by the agency may begin to receive services again without undergoing the same level of assessment on entry into a subsequent service episode.

The definition of service episode has not assumed that any standard sequence of events applies to all service episodes for all clients across all types of agencies and across all programs. Rather, the definition of a service episode allows for the receipt of any of the types of assistance to serve as a trigger for the beginning of a service episode. That is, the service activity associated with the beginning of a service episode (i.e. the first service event) will vary across agencies.

While agency policies and practices will impact upon the determination of a Service episode to some extent (e.g. different policies for taking clients 'off the books') the basic feature across agencies remain the first and the last Service events received by a client within a period of receipt of assistance. Establishing greater consistency in the determination of Service episodes would require a national cross-program approach to standardising entry and exit procedures across the community service sector.

Specialisation of:Help on this termService episode

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:Help on this termHome and Community Care (HACC) Data Dictionary Version 1.0, 1998

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Service cessation reason
Definition:Help on this termThe reason why the delivery of a service ceased.
Property group:Help on this termExit/leave from service event

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:Help on this termHome and Community Care (HACC) Data Dictionary Version 1.0, 1998

Relational attributes

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Service episode—service cessation reason (HACC), code N[N]

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 16/11/2009

Service episode—service cessation reason, code N

        Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005

Service episode—service cessation reason, disability code N[N]

        Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013

        Disability, Standard 13/08/2015

Service episode—service cessation reason, homelessness code N[N]

        Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018

Service episode—service cessation reason, homelessness code N[N]

        Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018

        Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010

Service episode—service cessation reason, juvenile justice code N[N]

        Community Services (retired), Superseded 14/09/2009

Service episode—service cessation reason, NDA code N[N]

        Community Services (retired), Superseded 10/04/2013

Service episode—service cessation reason, NDA code N[N]

        Disability, Standard 15/12/2017

Service episode—service cessation reason, NDA code N[N]

        Disability, Superseded 15/12/2017

Service episode—service cessation reason, out-of-home care placement code N[N]

        Community Services (retired), Standard 30/04/2008

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