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:	Date DDMMYYYY

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Date
Data type:	Date/Time
Format:	DDMMYYYY
Maximum character length:	8

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

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:	Is re-engineered from Commencement of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs, version 2, DEC, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (13.5 KB) No registration status Is re-engineered from Date of commencement of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.1 KB) No registration status
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS Health, Superseded 21/03/2006 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 DSS specific information: The date must be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 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, Superseded 09/12/2022 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. Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2023-24 Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2023 Implementation end date: 30/06/2024 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 2024-25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2024 Implementation end date: 30/06/2025 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.