Community nursing service episode—last contact date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Standard 01/03/2005

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

This could be the same as the date of discharge.

Includes:

• visits made to persons in institutional settings for the purpose of handing over or otherwise completing a care episode;
• bereavement visits in any setting;
• visits made to the person's home to complete the service, including the collection of equipment.

Excludes:

• visits made by liaison/discharge planning staff of a community service for the purpose of assessment of need related to a subsequent episode of care.

If service agencies are committed to monitoring all resource utilisation associated with an episode of care, this post-discharge date and the corresponding pre-admission metadata item Date of first contact, have a place within an agency information system. This is particularly true for those agencies providing discharge planning service or specialist consultancy or assessment services.

To enable analysis of time periods throughout a care episode, especially the bereavement period. This date has been included in order to capture the end of a care episode in terms of involvement of the community nursing service.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes