Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—treatment commencement date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Date of commencement of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs
METEOR identifier:	270069
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Definition:	The date on which the first service contact within the treatment episode when assessment and/or treatment occurs.
Data Element Concept:	Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—treatment commencement date

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Date

Data type:

Date/Time

Format:

DDMMYYYY

Maximum character length:

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

A client is identified as commencing a treatment episode if one or more of the following apply:

they are a new client,
they are a client recommencing treatment after they have had had no contact with the treatment provider for a period of three months or had any plan in place for further contact,
their principal drug of concern for alcohol and other drugs has changed,
their main treatment type for alcohol and other drugs has changed,
their treatment delivery setting for alcohol and other drugs has changed.

Comments:

Required to identify the commencement of a treatment episode by an alcohol and other drug treatment service.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs National Minimum Data Set Working Group

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS Health, Superseded 21/03/2006

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2005 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2006 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS Health, Superseded 23/10/2006

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2006 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2007 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2007 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2008 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2008-10 Health, Superseded 22/12/2009

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2008 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2010 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2010-11 Health, Superseded 24/12/2010

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2010 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2011 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2011-12 Health, Superseded 07/12/2011

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2011 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2012 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 07/02/2013

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2012 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2013 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2013-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2015 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2015-18 Health, Superseded 06/09/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2015 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2018 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2018-19 ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
Health, Superseded 12/12/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2018 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2019 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 20/02/2020

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2019 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2020 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2020 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2021 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2021 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2022 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2022 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2023 *DSS specific information:* The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.